[INDOLOGY] Indication of Case

[Dominik Wujastyk]

I've seen this in students' manuscripts, that are identifiable as such
because of the large, learner's Devanagari.  But my experience does not
support Brockhaus's view that this is "often" done.  It's very rare.  Maybe
Brockhaus was looking at a corpus of MSS by a particular scribe or scribal
group, or a particular topic (chandas?) in which this was more common
practice?

--
Professor Dominik Wujastyk <http://ualberta.academia.edu/DominikWujastyk>
,

Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity
,

Department of History and Classics <http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/>
,
University of Alberta, Canada
.

South Asia at the U of A:

sas.ualberta.ca



On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 at 11:05, victor davella via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear all.
>
> Today I stumbled upon a remark that caught my attention. Hermann Brockhaus
> mentions that in good, carefully written Indian manuscripts the case
> relation between members of a compound is often written above the words
> with a numeral corresponding to the case in the usual Sanskrit system
> (prathamā vibhaktiḥ, etc.). I have not seen this before, but I have not
> read all that many manuscripts. Does this ring a bell for anyone?  The
> original text can be found here
> <https://books.google.de/books?id=l5BFAAAAcAAJ&hl=de&pg=PA18#v=onepage&q&f=false>.  It
> is also pasted below but will perhaps not come through. The reference is:
> p. 18, Ueber den Druck Sanskritischer Werke mit lateinischen Buchstaben von
> Hermann Brockhaus, Leibzig, 1841.
>
> Many Thanks,
>
> Victor
>
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