[INDOLOGY] avagraha and sanskrit meter

[Marco Franceschini]

> The Vājasaneyi Prātiśākhya mentions that:
> 
> samāse’vagraho hrasvasamakālaḥ (5.1)
> 
> “In [the padapāṭha of] a compound, the avagraha has the same time has a hrasva vowel.”


The same is stated in the Ṛgvedaprātiśākhya:

mātrā hrasvaḥ (1.27) tāvad avagrahāntaram (1.28): “A short vowel has one mora. That much is the interval of an avagraha.”

In his commentary Uvaṭa says: hrasvasvaro mātrākālo devitavyaḥ | yathā a ṛ i u ḷ iti |

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Marco Franceschini
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Il giorno 17/ago/2016, alle ore 03:34, Nityanand Misra <nmisra at gmail.com> ha scritto:

> The Vājasaneyi Prātiśākhya mentions that:
> 
> samāse’vagraho hrasvasamakālaḥ (5.1)
> 
> “In [the padapāṭha of] a compound, the avagraha has the same time has a hrasva vowel.”
> 
> The commentaries of Uvaṭa and Anantabhaṭṭa explain that the ‘avagraha’ is separation of a compound into its constituent elements:
> 
> Uvaṭa: dvayoḥ padayoḥ pṛthaggrahaṇo'vagrahaḥ। nānāgraha ityarthaḥ। hrasvasamakālo hrasvākṣaratulyakālo bhavati।
> Anantabhaṭṭa: avagraho nāma dvayoḥ padayoḥ pṛthakkaraṇam। sa ca hrasvākṣarasamakālo bhavati।
> 
> However, this applies to the padapāṭha and not to the saṃhitāpāṭha. 
> 
> Nowadays, the avagraha sign is used to show what is called akārapraśleṣa. 
> 
> In Vedic saṃhitāpāṭha or in laukika poetry, the avagraha is not considered a syllable for prosodic purposes.
> 
> For more on this, please refer the entry on अवग्रह (avagraha) in A Dictionary of Sanskrit Grammar by K.V. Abhyankar 
> 
> On 17 August 2016 at 05:14, Harry Spier <hspier.muktabodha at gmail.com> wrote:
> Clarification about my question.  What I meant to ask was  avagraha ever pronounced as a pause and if so was it considered a syllable in Sanskrit metrics.
> 
> Thanks,
> Harry
> 
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 6:12 PM, Harry Spier <hspier.muktabodha at gmail.com> wrote:
> In Sanskrit meter is avagraha ignored or is it considered as a short syllable?
> 
> Thanks,
> Harry Spier
> 
> 
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