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

[Walter Slaje]

See

https://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/Korrektur_Differenzierung_und_Abk%C3%BCrzung_in_indischen_Inschriften_und_Handschriften/title_3753.ahtml

The table of contents downloadable from the Harrassowitz site provides good
orientation on the degree of coverage of Indian scripts and auxiliary
characters used in inscriptions and manuscripts.

Regards,
WS

Am Di., 9. Mai 2023 um 09:43 Uhr schrieb Lubomír Ondračka via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info>:

> I think the best and most comprehensive book not yet mentioned, which
> covers more than its title suggests, is:
>
> Katrin Einicke, Korrektur, Differenzierung und Abkürzung in indischen
> Inschriften und Handschriften, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2009.
>
> If I remember correctly, the author also discusses the use of
> sandhivigraha.
>
> Best,
> Lubomir
>
>
> On 09.05.2023 1:35, Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY wrote:
> > 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
> >     <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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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
> >             (he/him)
> >             PhD candidate
> >             Department of History, Classics, and Religion
> >             University of Alberta
> >
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> >             First Nations, Métis, Inuit, and all First Peoples of
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> >
> >
> >
> >     --
> >     Deepro Chakraborty
> >     (he/him)
> >     PhD candidate
> >     Department of History, Classics, and Religion
> >     University of Alberta
> >
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