Re: [INDOLOGY] Symbols in Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa text

[Walter Slaje]

Dear Harry Spier,

according to my limited knowledge, Vājasaneyins pronounce(d) Anunāsika
before semi-vowels, sibilants and h as "*ṅg*", represented in writing by a
special sign (as in your edition): śata*ṃ* śṛṇuyāma → "śata*ṅg* śṛṇuyāma".
Quite similar to how Germans - in the majority of cases - pronounce French
nasalizations, e.g. "Karto*ng*" for "carto*n*"

However, the pronunciation when reciting Saṃhitā texts replaces the
articulation of Anusvāra with a spoken "guṃ". So "tā *guṃ *haitām ..." for
tā*ṃ* haitām ..."

Your symbol represents an Anusvāra sign in a particular phonetic
environment.

Vedicists will know better.

Best,
WS


Am Di., 6. Okt. 2020 um 04:02 Uhr schrieb Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info>:

> I pasted an image of a page in the text with the symbols but I've been
> informed off-list that it didn't showup so I'm attaching it.
> Thanks,
> Harry Spier
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 5:39 PM Harry Spier <vasishtha.spier at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> First thank you to Lauren Bausch, Steven Lindquest for the information
>> about the editions and Caley Smith who pointed me to Weber's edition on
>> archive.org.
>>
>> I've just looked at the Weber's printed text .  In the first line  of the
>> image from the text I've pasted below there are two symbols I don't
>> understand and have highlighted in red.  I've never seen the first.  The
>> second looks like avagraha but I'm not clear why it is where it is between
>> long a and a.
>>
>> [image: image.png]
>> Harry Spier
>>
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