[INDOLOGY] Non-standard sandhi

[Harry Spier]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 8:49 PM Elliot Stern via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> . Incidentally, the avagrahaḥ in the copper plate inscription is an
> instance, in Whitney’s terminology, of a hyphen. The text reads:
> vā’numodeta.
>
>
> Does that mean the practice in some modern printed editions of using
avagraha and double avagrahas to indicate the assimilations of a+a,  ā+ā,
ā+a etc. is actually quite old?

Harry Spier


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