[INDOLOGY] sha and kha

[Madhav Deshpande]

Dear Jonathan,

     As Professor Girish Jha described, the change of ṣa to kha, except in
conjuncts with ṭa-varga [ष: खष्टुमृते], is prescribed by the Prātiśākhya of
the Śukla-Yajurveda and seen in the recitation of this Veda till today.
This also results in variation like pāṣaṇḍa/pākhaṇḍa.  Certainly, a
wide-spread dialectal feature.

Madhav M. Deshpande
Professor Emeritus
Sanskrit and Linguistics
University of Michigan
[Residence: Campbell, California]


On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 6:41 AM Arlo Griffiths via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

>
> There is frequent reference to the same phenomenon in some of Michael
> Witzel's "Materials on Vedic Śākhās", his series of articles published in
> various journals in the 1970s-1990s.
>
>
> Arlo Griffiths
>
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> *Subject:* Re: [INDOLOGY] {भारतीयविद्वत्परिषत्} sha and kha
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I am very interested in this equivalence, because what I remember having
> learned (I am not sure now whether this is the right word) that kha/ṣa
> "confusion" was a characteristic of Nepalese manuscripts, and that they
> were to be considered the same (I perhaps learned this from John Brough's
> lengthy review of Edgerton's Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Grammar and
> Dictionary, if memory serves...). But now it appears that this is not a
> "quirk" of Nepalese scribes but an instance of a wider phonologically
> motivated fusion?
>
> Curious, Jonathan Silk
>
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 6:51 AM, jhakgirish via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
> Dear colleagues
> Sorry for the mistake due to haste.Both snushaa and snokhaa have the
> meaning
> daughter-in-law and not grand daughter.
> Girish K.Jha
>
>
>
> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: jhakgirish <jhakgirish at gmail.com>
> Date: 9/12/18 10:16 AM (GMT+05:30)
> To: Indology <indology at list.indology.info>, bvparishat at googlegroups.com
> Subject: {भारतीयविद्वत्परिषत्} sha and kha
>
> Dear colleaguesThere is a sutra in Shukla yajuh praatishaakhya i.e." shah
> khah tumrite" It means retroflex sha is pronounced as kha except combined
> with the group t(tavarga).Hence in Shuklayajurveda it is pronouncedas kha.
> But in kashta,vishnu,etc. It is pronounced as sha.Almost all over India it
> is pronounced as kha in Shuklayajusha. I would like to mention that in our
> Mithila(North Bihar) retroflex sha is not only pronounced in Shuklayajusha
> but in ClassicalSanskrit too pronounced as kha and also inMaithili
> Language( a modern Indo-Aryan).It would not be out of the context what I
> would say.It has been coming from the Indo-European period.There is a
> Russian parallel "snokhaa" which resembles Sanskrit "snushaa" but both have
> the same meaning i.e.grand daughter.RegardsGirish K.JhaRetd.
> Univ.ProfessorDept of SanskritPatna UniversityPatna:India
> 800005(Residence-Kolkata:India)Sent from my Samsung Galaxy
> smartphone.-------- Original message --------From: V Subrahmanian <
> v.subrahmanian at gmail.com> Date: 9/12/18 7:06 AM  (GMT+05:30) To:
> BHARATIYA VIDVAT <bvparishat at googlegroups.com> Subject: Re:
> {भारतीयविद्वत्परिषत्} Re: पुरुषसूक्तम् -- शुक्ल यजुर्वेद On Wed, Sep 12,
> 2018 at 6:23 AM Shashi Joshi <shashikgp at gmail.com> wrote:Interestingly
> this same ष ---> ख pronunciation transition is seen in Rajasthan. My
> grandfather would say words likeखडयन्त्र (षड्यन्त्र )पुख्य (पुष्य
> नक्षत्र)सुखेण (सुषेण in Hanuman Chalisa)लक्ष्मी becoming लकुमी is common in
> Kannada poetry.  ಏನು ಧನ್ಯಳೋ ಲಕುಮಿSubmitted by shreekant.mishrikoti on Tue,
> 06/01/2009 - 03:19(ರಾಗ ತೋಡಿ ಅಟತಾಳ)ಏನು ಧನ್ಯಳೋ ಲಕುಮಿಎಂಥ ಮಾನ್ಯಳೋಸಾನುರಾಗದಿಂದ
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