[INDOLOGY] semi-vowel ra plus long-a in Lanman

[Harry Spier]

Could it just be a limitation of the devanagari lead type his printer
had..  I.e. he had the type of r over v but not the type  r over the long a

Harry Spier

On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 12:25 AM, McComas Taylor <McComas.Taylor at anu.edu.au>
wrote:

>  Dear Colleagues
>
>
>  We always follow the convention that when the semi-vowel ra is the first
> letter in a conjunct consonant cluster, it is written above the line as far
> to the right in the syllable as possible. E.g. in sarvāḥ, it would be
> printed over the ā .
>
>
>  A sharp-eyed student has noted that Lanman does not appear to follow
> this convention when the following vowel is ā  -  Lanman consistently
> prints the ra over the first following consonant in a consonant cluster -
> in the example above, over the va.
>
>
>  E.g. p. 1 l.17, p2 l. 8, p.2 l.12
>
>
>  Can any colleague provide a justification for Lanman's approach?
>
>
>  Thanks in advance
>
>
>  McC
>
>
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