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

Thu May 11 18:28:56 UTC 2023

I think that is very likely.  My book *Metarules of Paninian Grammar* was
partly based on Raghunatha MSS and they were definitely copied from Śāradā
originals.  I discussed the reasons in my introduction.  For example,
several character-pairs are confused, that are similar in Śāradā but quite
different in Devanāgarī.

Best,
Dominik

On Wed, 10 May 2023 at 19:54, Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Thank you to all the knowledgeable people who answered both on and
> off-list. Sven Ekelin, Deepro Chakraborty, Dominik Wujastyk, Lubomire
> Ondracka,  Wlater Slaje, Jonathan Silk, Sweta Prajapati, Charles DiSimone,
> Elliot Stern, Charles Li.
>
> I wonder if this folio 6a from ajñānadhvāntadīpikā (attached) also from
> Ragunath temple in Jammu like the other manuscripts, confirms that the
> devanagari manuscripts are copying Sharada originals. This is the only
> avagraha in the entire manuscript(circled with a blue line).  I had thought
> this was an insert, but looking at a Sharada font, this appears to be the
> position and size of the Sharada avagraha.  So maybe the scribe just absent
> mindedly wrote it in the way it was in the Sharada original.
>
> Harry Spier
>
>
> On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 4:42 AM Walter Slaje <walter.slaje at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Here are my humble suggestions:
>>
>> *Kaulārcanadīpikā 43b*
>>
>> Avagraha erroneously placed after, instead before, *yaṃ*: *loko yaṃ* ’ → *loko
>> ’yaṃ*
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>> *57a*
>>
>> The two dots written on top of each other (visarga) were misread or
>> accidentally misspelled (or simply give the wrong impression through
>> blurred ink) as being an avagraha:
>>
>> *mokṣa’syād* → *mokṣaḥ syād*
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>> *Dakṣiṇāmūrtisaṃhitā 21a*
>>
>> As above (*57a*):
>>
>> *ṛṣi’syād* → *ṛṣiḥ syād*
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>> So apparently also *55b*.
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>> *Mudrāprakāśaḥ* *11a*
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>> Appears to indicate word separation
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>> *21a/30a*
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>> Word separation and/or exegetical function: separating the conditional
>> clause (*yadi syād*) from the main clause.
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>> Similarly *18a*: separating the scope of *iti* from the definiendum.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> WS
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>> Am So., 7. Mai 2023 um 22:20 Uhr schrieb Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <
>> indology at list.indology.info>:
>>
>>> 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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