[INDOLOGY] Non-standard sandhi

[Krishnaprasad G]

The double avagraha has 2 different methods followed by North Indian
textsand South Indian texts.
If anyone interested to know, I will write about double avagraha rules
followed.
KP


On Wed 20 Mar, 2019, 8:10 AM Elliot Stern via INDOLOGY, <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> The copper plate inscription (single) avagrahaḥ shows that even in the 9th
> century CE it could mark assimilation of at least ā + a. We cannot infer
> from this example, however, that double avagrahaḥ marking assimilation is
> an ancient usage. The only uses of double avagrahaḥ I’ve seen are in
> colonial period and later printed texts and in manuscripts copied from
> printed texts. These sources are not “quite old”.
>
> On Mar 19, 2019, at 9:20 PM, Harry Spier <hspier.muktabodha at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> 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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