[INDOLOGY] Non-standard sandhi

[Harry Spier]

How are avagrahas considered in metrical verses?
Is --- sahite 'sya --- pronounced as if it was --- sahite sya --- or is
there a slight pause for the avagraha?

Harry Spier

On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 3:43 AM Martin Gansten via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Thanks to Madhav Deshpande, Andrey Klebanov and Harry Spier for their
> (off-list) replies to my question, confirming that the sandhi *e + a > a
> a* is indeed non-standard. Madhav wrote:
>
> I have not seen another example exactly like this, and have not come
> across a traditional rule to deal with this.  I wonder how hybrid this text
> is, or whether there are manuscript variants for this particular passage.
> One thing I noticed is that if we keep the presumed pre-sandhi reading of
> "sahite asya," the meter does not work, and neither does it work with the
> regular sandhi "sahite 'sya."  The meter does seem to work with "sahita
> asya".  The last syllable of "sahita" needs to be metrically light.  So I
> suppose some sort of metrical compulsion may have resulted in this
> irregularity.  Just a thought.
>
>
> The work in question is a largish one (~550 stanzas) and written in
> perfectly grammatical, sometimes even elegant Sanskrit in a variety of
> metres, with no particular suggestion of being hybrid, and the witnesses I
> have seen (two of the work itself, and half a dozen of another work quoting
> the verse in question) all agree on the reading of this passage.
>
> Harry raised the same point about the metre (svāgatā), but it wouldn't be
> difficult to rephrase the pāda so as to conform to both metre and standard
> sandhi (e.g., tena vāpi sahite 'sya ca labdhis). So I am left with the
> impression that Yādavasūri must have considered his choice of sandhi in
> this case unproblematic, although he usually follows the stardard rule *e
> + a > e [']*.
>
> Thanks again,
> Martin
>
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