[INDOLOGY] Grammatical question

[Madhav Deshpande]

Dear Victor,

     Your reference to "the word saṃskartā can be pronounced 108 different
ways according to (some) grammarians. See Bhaṭṭojī Dīkṣita ad P. 8.3.34 (SK
138)" reminded me of my early days of reading Panini, and the dread that I
felt as a student about having to explain these 108 variations in an exam.
There is a comic verse about the other example of सुधी+उपास्य: where
numerous alternative forms are produced by using all possible options of
reduplication.  I don't fully remember it but the verse goes something like
हता: केचित् ..हता: परे .. सुद्ध्युपास्ये हता: सर्वे.  It just tells you
about how many students drop dead by the dread of these examples. Perhaps
Ashok Aklujkar or Saroja Bhate will recall the verse.

Madhav

Madhav M. Deshpande
Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies

[Residence: Campbell, California, USA]


On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 1:56 AM victor davella via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> it is a "fun fact" that the word saṃskartā can be pronounced 108 different
> ways according to (some) grammarians. See Bhaṭṭojī Dīkṣita ad P. 8.3.34 (SK
> 138). The pronunciation sanskartā is, however, not among them.
>
> All the Best,
> Victor
>
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 3:59 AM George Hart via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
>> I’ve been enjoying the discussion on Indology. A friend had a question
>> about Sanskrit that I could not answer properly. It involves the
>> pronunciation of anusvāra before various consonants. I believe that before
>> y, r, l and v, it is nasalized. Assuming that is correct, is it also
>> nasalized before ś, ṣ, s and h? Some people say samskṛta, with an m sound,
>> but I always assumed it was a nasal sound. I think the nasal is put in the
>> same phonetic category as the ś etc. — i.e.in aṃśa it is a palatal
>> nasal, in saṃskṛta it is a dental nasal, and in siṃha it is sort of a velar
>> nasal sound. The problem is, everyone seems to say simha (m sound), not the
>> nasal sound. What do the grammarians say? Is there a correct pronunciation,
>> or can one choose between the nasal and the “m” before ś, ṣ, s and h?
>> George Hart
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