[INDOLOGY] Sandhi breaks in longer meters

[Dominik Wujastyk]

The adhikāra sūtra governing sandhi rules is "saṃhitāyām", "when there is
conjunction".  So when there is not conjunction, no sandhi rule is
triggered.

In the Mahābhāṣya, Patañjali does have a discussion about how slowly you
can speak and still be considered to be producing a vākya.  This problem
can be related to the issue of what counts as conjunction.

Best,
Dominik

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On 28 July 2016 at 16:30, Jonathan Silk <kauzeya at gmail.com> wrote:

> I hardly dare to comment when my teacher, Madhav Deshpande, is on this
> list as well, and what little I know I know from him, but.... I recall very
> well learning that external sandhi is, according to the grammarians, always
> optional.
> Because
> One
> Can
> Always
> Speak
> Like
> This
> If
> One
> Wants
> To.
> In other words, the use of sandhi is a convention, so the question might
> be slightly rephrased as: what are the conventions of the poets, and of the
> scribes. No?
> (Perhaps, as is quite likely, of course, this was implied in the question,
> and I should have kept my ideas to myself.
> In
> Which
> Case,
> Sorry ;)
>
> Jonathan
>
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Valerie Roebuck <vjroebuck at btinternet.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Correction: I meant ‘at the end of one line’.
>>
>> > I’ve just had a quick look at an edition of the Saundaryalaharī, in
>> Śikhariṇī (17 syllables to a line), and sandhi is broken only between half
>> verses and whole verses. For example, there's a ś  at the end of one
>> half-line followed by a c at the beginning of the next.
>>
>> Valerie J Roebuck
>> Manchester, UK
>>
>> > On 28 Jul 2016, at 15:07, Harry Spier <hspier.muktabodha at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Dear list members,
>> >
>> > In the longer sanskrit meters (Vasantatilaka for examplbe 14 syllables
>> to a line) is Sandhi broken after each line or only after the half verse
>> and end of verse.
>> >
>> > Thank you,
>> > Vasishtha
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