[INDOLOGY] Unknown sign in a Nepalese MS

[Dominik Wujastyk]

Thank you very much indeed, Birgit, for kindly sharing these  interesting
and helpful parallels.

Like others, I marvel at the usefulness of this forum for getting help with
recondite issues.

Best,
Dominik

On Sun, 11 Apr 2021 at 23:08, Birgit Kellner <birgit.kellner at oeaw.ac.at>
wrote:

> 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: image.png]
>
> and
>
> [image: 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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