[INDOLOGY] Non-standard sandhi

[Martin Gansten]

Thank you, Christophe. So there is at least one Buddhist parallel and 
one Vedic (ṚV 8.72.5c: véti stótava ambíyam, as pointed out by Jan). 
That is interesting.

Best wishes,
Martin


Den 2019-03-21 kl. 09:33, skrev Christophe Vielle:
> There is maybe some parallel with what Renou Gram. p. 46 §41c (dealing 
> with the sandhi of final -e/-o + vowels) notes about the "hiatus de a 
> (issu du nomin. /aḥ/des thèmes en /-a/) devant initiale a-*suivie de 
> deux consonnes* dans un texte bouddh[ique]", referring to Pischel 
> SBBerl. 1904, p. 812, here:
> https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/92836#page/890/mode/1up
> /ekacīvaraka asthāt /instead of /ekacīvarako 'sthāt/
> /pṛṣṭa avyākṛtam/ instead of /pṛṣṭo 'vyākṛtam/
> I mean (in /asya/) the presence of the two consonants following the 
> initial /a/, which lenghtens the syllabe, and makes the initial /a 
> /pronounced long, resulting in the fact that the final /e/ here 
> conforms with the "general" rule (becoming/a(y) /when followed by any 
> vowel, except /a,/ or diphtongue).
> Conversely, the two consonants following a /ā///can make it considered 
> as short, as Renou notes ibid. with the (mainly epic) occurrences of 
> /-o/-e  'tman/ for /-a/ /ātman./



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