[INDOLOGY] Unknown sign in a Nepalese MS

[Birgit Kellner]

Dominik,

I came across similar signs in proto-Bengali manuscripts and gathered 
some information and documentation with the help of my colleagues in 
Vienna.

I'm attaching a PDF summarizing what I found (this was back in 2017). 
It's interesting that they would occur in a Nepalese ms. this late.

Generally helpful in such cases is Katrin Einicke, „Korrektur, 
Differenzierung und Abkürzung in indischen Inschriften und 
Handschriften“, Wiesbaden 2009 (references to relevant pages in my PDF).

Hope this helps,

best regards,

Birgit


Am 11.04.21 um 23:14 schrieb Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY:
> I am looking for help with these signs that I'm seeing in the 
> fifteenth-century Nepalese MS, MS Kathmandu NAK 5-333 
> <https://www.panditproject.org/entity/102310/manuscript>:
>
> image.png
>
> and
>
> image.png
>
> Here, the surrounding word is pāke
>
> These symbols are not letters, since they don't contribute to the 
> surrounding text, but interrupt it.  I have wondered whether they are 
> the scribe expressing that his archetype has a string-hole at this 
> place, perhaps, but I don't see the symbols often enough for that.  
> They occur rather rarely.
>
> Has anyone seen these?
>
> Best,
> Dominik
>
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