[INDOLOGY] Devanagari v and b in manuscripts from Kashmir

[Harry Spier]

Dominik,
Could you tell us a little more about saktumIva (saktumiva.org).  The
website tells us what it does, but I couldn't find a page that gave some
history of it, who its principals were etc.
*Saktumiva* is a platform for producing and publishing critical editions of
Sanskrit texts. Users can produce transcriptions of documents, such as
manuscripts or printed editions, and then automatically collate them to
produce an apparatus of variants.

Thanks,
Harry Spier


On Sat, Mar 25, 2023 at 7:20 PM Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Quite.  In the Suśruta Project
> <https://saktumiva.org/wiki/wujastyk/susrutasamhita/start>'s edition
> we've gone with geminated consonants (karmma, karttā) and some other odd
> sandhi choices (evaṅ guṇam) because they are sanctioned by Pāṇini.  It's
> going to make our edition a bit odd for readers who are used to
> smoothed-out Sanskrit.  But it's grammatically correct.  And that's another
> editorial assumption: we assume that our author(s) know grammar.  That can
> also be tricky, if we think there are maybe some dialectical features
> appearing.  Luckily, the SS is a good example of classical Sanskrit.
> Separating error from dialect or language drift, the BHS problem, is extra
> challenging.
>
> Best,
> Dominik
>
> On Fri, 24 Mar 2023 at 21:39, Harry Spier <vasishtha.spier at gmail.com>
> 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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