[INDOLOGY] Spaces between words in Sanskrit manuscripts?

[victor davella]

For one specific case of markers used to indicate word boundaries, see
Hahn's 2007 edition of the Kapphiṇābhyudaya pp. 4ff. I have also found them
in other MSS, mostly from Nepal.

All the Best,
Victor



On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 6:02 AM, McComas Taylor via INDOLOGY <
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> Dear colleagues
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> A student has asked me a questions I cannot answer:  'When did scribes
> begin to insert spaces between words in Sanskrit manuscripts?'
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> Can any of you learned folk help us out?
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> Thanks in advance
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> McComas
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