[INDOLOGY] Spaces between words in Sanskrit manuscripts? > in inscriptions

[Richard G Salomon]

I'm not sure whether this has been mentioned, but I briefly discussed 
the question of word division in inscriptions in my Indian Epigraphy 
book, p. 67. Basically, it is not found in Sanskrit inscriptions but 
does occur in some Prakrit inscriptions, mainly from the earlier periods.

Rich Salomon


On 5/16/2018 9:15 AM, Camillo Formigatti via INDOLOGY wrote:
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> 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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> Camillo
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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 <mailto: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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