Re: [INDOLOGY] Saṃmatu

[Martin Gansten]

Yes, I drew the same conclusion. I would still be interested to know 
whether other have seen the particular form/error /saṃmatu/, though, and 
whether it does suggest a particular regional origin.

Martin


Den 2020-07-03 kl. 09:43, skrev Nagaraj Paturi:
> It is possible that
>
> इति श्री उत्तरकॉड सम्पूरण मसतु सुभमसुत ॥ संमतु ॥ 1860 ॥
>
> is the regionalization plus scribal errors for
>
> इति श्री उत्तरकांड सम्पूर्णमस्तु शुभमस्तु ॥ संवत्‌॥ 1860 ॥
>
> whatever is the region of the scribe or the scribe of the original 
> from where this scribe is copying.
>
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 12:33 PM Martin Gansten 
> <martingansten at gmail.com <mailto:martingansten at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Thank you, Nagaraj. The manuscript in question is in Devanagari
>     and belongs, according to the label, to the Lal Chand library at
>     DAV College, Chandigarh, so I doubt if the scribe was a South
>     Indian. I may add that it is a few centuries old, dated 1644 CE,
>     though the label says सं १९०१ (for १७०१) by mistake.
>
>     A web search for संमतु turns up a very limited number of hits, but
>     the first one is similar in context to 'my' manuscript:
>      इति श्री उत्तरकॉड सम्पूरण मसतु सुभमसुत ॥ संमतु ॥ 1860 ॥ मिती पौछ
>     की इकादसी थित। वार शुकर ॥
>     This is from a book entitled भारतीय भाषाओं में रामकथा (पंजाबी
>     भाषा), so perhaps we are looking at a northwestern rather than a
>     southern phenomenon?
>
>     Martin
>
>
>     Den 2020-07-03 kl. 00:57, skrev Nagaraj Paturi:
>>     Halanta words changing into ajanta words during borrowing is
>>     typically a feature of South Indian languages. That ending vowel
>>     being u is typically a Telugu feature.
>>
>>     Samvat is pronounced as close to Samvatu with the lat vowel being
>>     nearlly u in Telugu and some other south Indian languages.
>>
>>     But Samvatu changing into Sammati is uncommon in educated
>>     pronunciation. But possible in the case of a scribe being rustic.
>>
>>     Possible in a Telugu inscription or manuscript.
>>
>>     On Thu, Jul 2, 2020, 6:38 PM Martin Gansten via INDOLOGY
>>     <indology at list.indology.info
>>     <mailto:indology at list.indology.info>> wrote:
>>
>>         I just encountered the word /saṃmatu /at the end of a
>>         (Sanskrit Devanagari) manuscript where I would have expected
>>         /saṃvat/. I haven't seen it before and wonder if colleagues
>>         have -- perhaps it is a NIA form?
>>
>>         Best wishes,
>>         Martin Gansten
>>
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>
> -- 
> Nagaraj Paturi
> Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA.
>
>
> Director, Inter-Gurukula-University Centre , Indic Academy
> BoS, MIT School of Vedic Sciences, Pune, Maharashtra
> BoS, Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth, Veliyanad, Kerala
> BoS Veda Vijnana Gurukula, Bengaluru.
> Member, Advisory Council, Veda Vijnana Shodha Samsthanam, Bengaluru
> Former Senior Professor of Cultural Studies,
> FLAME School of Communication and FLAME School of  Liberal Education,
> Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA.
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