[INDOLOGY] Indication of Case

[victor davella]

I add a special thanks to Eric Gurevitch who pointed me to Murari Lal
Nagar's edition of the Vikramāṅkadevacarita, where this phenomenon, inter
alia, is described on pp. 1f. of the prastāvanā.

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284210/page/n9

All the Best,
Victor

On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 10:37 AM victor davella <vbd203 at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> Thank all for your responses. I'll keep an eye out for more examples!
>
> All the Best,
> Victor
>
> On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 4:20 AM Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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