[INDOLOGY] Devanagari v and b in manuscripts from Kashmir

[Madhav Deshpande]

Hello Harry,

     Many cases like *patra/pattra *are instances of optional doubling of
consonants in certain environments. To the extent, this doubling is
optional, a dictionary may need to make a choice of which alternative to
list.  The prevalence of doubling or lack of it is also sometimes related
to the regional or other preferences. For example, more doubling is common
in the tradition of the Śukla-Yajurveda, so much so that the Nirnaya Sagara
Press needed special fonts to print the pothi of Śukla-Yajurveda.

Madhav

Madhav M. Deshpande
Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies
Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India

[Residence: Campbell, California, USA]


On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 8:39 PM Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Point taken Dominik. You wrote:
>
>>  One has *two* files.  The first is the diplomatic transcription
>> (karmma, vindu, adhiṣṭāna).  The second is whatever one wants it to be, but
>> it's interpretative or normalized.
>>
>
> I think another reason, in addition to all the reasons you gave for what
> you suggest. I.e.  "first is the diplomatic transcription"  and only then
> to create a "normalized" file, is that deciding whats normal is sometimes a
> judgement call . There may be more than one norm. For example:
> Monier-Williams dictionary has pattra and chattra but Apte's dictionary
> has patra and chatra .
>
> Harry Spier
>
>
>>
>>
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