[INDOLOGY] Spaces between words in Sanskrit manuscripts?

[Charles DiSimone]

Hi all,

To quickly add to Camillo's statement, non-application of external sandhi
is a common (but not standardized) form of punctuation in Gilgit area
manuscripts, for example.

All best,
Charles

On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 6:15 PM, Camillo Formigatti via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> The use of word dividers is very widespread in manuscripts from Northern
> India and Nepal in general—for instance, it is developed to a high degree
> of exactness in Jaina manuscripts. As to the use of blank spaces between
> words, my impression is that blank spaces were used to separate syntactic
> units in prose or verses already early on, but not for single words
> systematically.
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> Best wishesm
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> *From:* victor davella [mailto:vbd203 at googlemail.com]
> *Sent:* 15 May 2018 18:06
> *To:* McComas Taylor <McComas.Taylor at anu.edu.au>;
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> *Subject:* Re: [INDOLOGY] Spaces between words in Sanskrit manuscripts?
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> 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.
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> All the Best,
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> Victor
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> On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 6:02 AM, McComas Taylor via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
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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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