[INDOLOGY] Avagraha (or lack of) in Kashmiri manuscripts

[Harry Spier]

It was suggested offlist that the unusual avagrahas may be used as a gap
filler.  At his request I'm attaching a pdf of the folios with the unusual
avagrahas circled.
Thanks,
Harry Spier


On Sun, May 7, 2023 at 9:35 AM Harry Spier <vasishtha.spier at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thank you Elliot,
> I've been going through transcriptions of a group of manuscripts from the
> Ragunath Temple, Jammu and in the eloquent words of Charles DiSimone who
> replied offlist in describing some Nepalese manuscripts, its a mishmash.
>
> Some don't have have avagraha. Some have one or two in a whole manuscript
> and some use avagraha.  Where manuscripts use avagraha to elide a afte e or
> o they also use avagraha to indicate ā+a .
>
> But in some cases I'm finding avagraha in places strange places. I've
> checked these following cases against the actual manuscripts which are in
> archive.org.  For example:
>
> dakṣiṇāmūrtisaṁhitā ऋषिऽस्याद्दक्षिणामूर्तिर्गायत्रीछंद उच्यते ।। 4 ।। folio 21aअंते जीवऽशिवस्या तु विद्या वरुण पूजिता ।। 43 ।। folio 55b
>
>  kaulārcanadīpikā
>  लोकोयंऽजुगुप्सिति folio 43bनिःसंग एव मोक्षऽस्याद्दोषाः सर्वे च संगजाः । folio 57a
>
> mudrāprakāśaḥ शिखयागालिनीं मुद्रामऽर्धस्यो परिचालयेत् । folio 11aअनामा मध्यमे अंगुष्टेन स्पृशेदित्यऽपानमुद्रा ।। 2 ।। folio 18aस्यादऽपानहुतौ मुद्रा ।। 2 ।। folio 21aमध्यापृष्टेंऽगुष्टौ मध्या क्रोडे स्थितौ कामः काम इति काममुद्रेत्यर्थः ।। 19 ।। folio 30a
>
> Any explanation for the use of avagraha in these cases would be
> appreciated.
>
> If anyone wants to look at the actual manuscript I can provide the images
> for these cases.
>
>
> Harry Spier
>
>
> On Sat, May 6, 2023 at 10:18 AM Elliot Stern <emstern1948 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Harry,
>>
>> The use of avagraha to mark elision of an initial short a is not usual in
>> Sanskrit mss. MacDonell,  for example,  says in his Sanskrit Grammar for
>> Students (page 5):
>>
>> The elision of अ a at the beginning of a word is marked in
>>
>> European editions with the sign ऽ called Avaagraha ('separation'); e.g.
>>  तेऽपि te 'pi for ते अपि te pi.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Elliot
>>
>> On May 5, 2023, at 9:14 PM, Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <
>> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>>
>> Dear list members,
>> I'm looking at the manuscript ajñānadhvāntadīpikā by somanāthaḥ
>> As far as I can tell there are no avagrahas in the manuscript.
>> For example if you look at the end of line 5 on the attached 1st folio
>>
>> The end of verse 5 is संन्यासाःसप्रयोगाश्चवक्ष्यन्तेत्रसमासतः ५  Anirban Dash (and several others pointed out that this should be
>>
>> संन्यासाःसप्रयोगाश्चवक्ष्यन्तेऽत्रसमासतः ५
>>
>> As far as I can see there are no avagrahas  anywhere in the manuscript.
>> Is this normal or unusual for Kashmiri manuscripts not to use avagraha.
>>
>> The manuscript can be downloaded from egangotri on archive.org from
>> https://archive.org/details/AgyanDhvantaDeepikaShriSomnath4966Alm22Shlf4DevanagariTantra_201708
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Harry Spier
>> <VERSE 5.pdf>
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