[INDOLOGY] Examples of very ambiguous devanagari Sanskrit sentences

dhaval patel drdhaval2785 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 9 05:11:59 UTC 2015


I am currently working with a manuscript of 'virahiNIpralApaH' which is a
kAvya where the stanzas by rule have such quality.

I hope the following stanza may be useful for your purpose.

न हन्ति गमनं कस्य *मधुरध्वनि रागतः* ।

यच्चूतं मधुपव्रातो *मधुरध्वनिरागतः* ॥ ४ ॥

प.वि. -

न हन्ति गमनं कस्य मधुः अध्वनि रागतः । यत् चूतं मधुप-व्रातः मधुर-ध्वनिः आगतः
॥

अन्वयः -

मधुः कस्य अध्वनि रागतः गमनं न हन्ति यत्‌ मधुरध्वनिः मधुपव्रातः चूतं आगतः ।

व्याख्या -

कस्य नरस्य । मधुः वसन्तः । अध्वनि पथि । रागतः रागवशात्‌ । मधुपव्रातो
भ्रमरश्रेणिः । किंविशिष्टो मधुपव्रातः मधुरध्वनिः ।



On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Dipak Bhattacharya <dipak.d2004 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> As for the original question of Mr. Harry Spier in some publications an
> avagraha is put to indicate a coalesced/elided अ and two for two such अs.
> One has मयाsदेयम् for *mayā adeyam* and मयाssदेयम् for *mayā ādeyam*.
>
> I did not see the latter in manuscripts.
>
> Best
>
> DB
>
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 10:45 PM, Harry Spier <hspier.muktabodha at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear list members,
>>
>> I need to show to some non-sanskritists that given a Sanskrit phrase in
>> devanagari, that how you put in the word breaks in the transliteration can
>> result in phrases with very different meanings.
>>
>> Can any of the list members give examples of short sentences in simple
>> sanskrit in devanagari that when the words are split  differently in the
>> transliteration give grammatically correct Sanskrit sentences but produce
>> Sanskrit phrases with  "radically" different meanings.
>>
>> For my purposes simple Sanskrit sentences are better than more
>> complicated Sanskrit from the literature.  And sentences that give very
>> different meanings depending on how the words are broken up are better than
>> more subtle differences.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Harry Spier
>>
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Dr. Dhaval Patel, I.A.S
District Development Officer, Rajkot
www.sanskritworld.in


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