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

[Dominik Wujastyk]

I agree with Deepro about the absence of any good, comprehensive book.  But
to add to the readings, I would mention some lesser-known sources:

   - Grierson, George Abraham. 1916. “On the Sarada Alphabet.” The Journal
   of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 677–708.
   http://www.jstor.org/stable/25189479.
   - Murthy, R. S. Shivaganesha. 1996. Introduction to Manuscriptology.
   Delhi: Sharada Publishing House.
   - Nair, K. Maheswaran. 1998. Manuscriptology. Trivandrum: Swantham Books.
   - Mukhopadhyaya, Bijayanath. 1985. Administration of Manuscript
   Libraries with Special Reference to Sanskrit. Calcutta Sanskrit College
   Research Series. Calcutta: Sanskrit College.
   - Tripāṭhī, Chandrabhāl. 1975. Catalogue of the Jaina Manuscripts at
   Strasbourg. Indologia Berolinensis ; Bd. 4. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
   (Introduction)

Best,
Dominik

On Mon, 8 May 2023 at 17:11, Deepro Chakraborty via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> You are most welcome.
>
> I cannot think of any single book that covers all such issues. You can
> check some of the volumes of Studies in Manuscript Cultures
> <https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/publications/smc.html>. Some volumes are
> particularly dedicated to Indic manuscripts, such as Volume 10: Bidur
> Bhattarai's Dividing Texts: Conventions of Visual Text-Organisation in
> Nepalese and North Indian Manuscripts
> <https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/publications/smc/smc10.html>. For the
> Kashmiri manuscripts, I would recommend Michael Witzel's 1994 article "Kashmiri
> Manuscripts and Pronunciation
> <https://archive.org/details/kashmiri-manuscripts-and-pronunciation-witzel>
> ".
>
> Deepro
>
> On Mon, May 8, 2023 at 4:47 PM Harry Spier <vasishtha.spier at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thank you Deepro,
>> What you say makes sense, that it is a copy of a Sharada manuscript
>> carrying over the characteristics of the original.
>> On a broader point, I've seen  courses on manuscriptology advertised many
>> places over the years, so I'm wondering if there are any books that have
>> been written on manuscriptology that cover all these practical issues that
>> come up when you look at actual manuscripts.
>> Harry Spier
>> Harry Spier
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 8, 2023 at 6:21 PM Deepro Chakraborty <deepro at ualberta.ca>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Harry,
>>>
>>> The *avagraha* in the Devanāgari manuscript seems to follow the trait
>>> of Sharada manuscripts in which the *avagraha* functions as a sandhi
>>> mark <https://symbl.cc/en/111C9/>. So, it has a broader use than just
>>> being used in cases of an *abhinihita *sandhi.
>>>
>>> Deepro Chakraborty
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>>> University of Alberta
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>>
>
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> Deepro Chakraborty
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