[INDOLOGY] Devanagari v and b in manuscripts from Kashmir

[Harry Spier]

Thank you to Howard Resnick, Charles DiSimone, and Tom Cahill who confirmed
off-list that he has seen the same thing in N. Indian manuscripts.
Harry Spier


On Sat, Feb 25, 2023 at 11:31 AM Howard Resnick <hr at ivs.edu> wrote:

> In Bengali, and even in the standard Bengali-English Samsad dictionary, b
> and v are given as the same letter.
>
>
> On Feb 25, 2023, at 9:14 AM, Charles DiSimone via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
> Dear Harry Spier,
>
> I'm not sure when ba became a dedicated akṣara within the Devanāgarī
> script, but what you describe has been the norm for Brahmic script
> manuscript transmissions over history.
>
> All my best,
> Charles
>
> Dr. Charles DiSimone
> Department of Languages and Cultures
> Ghent University
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2023 at 2:57 PM Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
>> Dear list members,
>> I'm looking at a manuscript from the Ragunath Temple Sanskrit Manuscript
>> Library, Jammu, j&K. The text is  ajñānadvāntadīpikā by somanātha
>> The link to the pdf on archive.org is:
>>
>> https://archive.org/download/AgyanDhvantaDeepikaShriSomnath4966Alm22Shlf4DevanagariTantra/Agyan%20Dhvanta%20Deepika%20-%20Shri%20Somnath_4966_Alm_22_Shlf_4_Devanagari-%20Tantra.pdf
>>
>> Looking at the first few lines it looks to me like the scribe is using
>> the devanagari letter  व for both व and ब.  Is that common practice in
>> devanagari manuscripts from kashmir?
>> Thanks,
>> Harry Spier
>>
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