[INDOLOGY] Sanskrit sandhi and pronounciation

[Harry Spier]

Dear list members,
 I asked for an explanation of the sandhi *namaḥ nārāyaṇāya *becomes *namo
nārāyaṇāya* .
I.e why *aḥ* before a soft consonent or *a* becomes *o* .

If it is of interest to anyone, I've found a linguistic explanation of this
in W.S. Allen's  book:
THE THEORETICAL, PHONETIC, AND HISTORICAL BASES OF WORD-JUNCTION IN SANSKRIT
on pages 70-71 .
https://archive.org/download/in.ernet.dli.2015.142366/2015.142366.Sandhi.pdf

Harry Spier

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