[INDOLOGY] Examples of very ambiguous devanagari Sanskrit sentences

[Harry Spier]

Dipak Bhattacharya raises a point I've wondered about.
1) Why wasn't (until recently) avagraha used to resolve this kind of
ambiguity.
2)  Is avagraha only a written sign or is it some kind of pause in spoken
Sanskrit
3) How far back does avagraha go.  To Panini, pre-Panini, post-Panini ?

Thanks,
Harry Spier

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 12:02 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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