[INDOLOGY] CORRECTION: Writing anusvara with avagraha in devanagari (Harry Spier)

[Piotr Balcerowicz]

Dear Harry,

All printed editions reproduce the passage is as: *सागरों**ऽशुश्च*, e.g.
the Poona edition:
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*A**vagr**a**ha* is historically introduced later. *Anusvāra* is already
represented in the Aśokan Brāhmī script, which means it is an old concept,
and represented thereafter in various scripts, whereas *svagraha* is
introduced only much later to Indic scripts. Early manuscripts  frequently
do not contain the *avagraha* sign at all. So, in historically earlier
period (when *avagraha* was no yet there) we would expect to read *सागरों*
*शुश्च*, in which the *anusvāra* would obviously be written over the
preceding *akṣara*. The insertion of the *avagraha* into this sequence of
*akṣara*s (*सागरों**ऽशुश्च*) should therefore not change much and the
*anusvāra* should remain in its (historically) original place (where it
would have been, before the inventions of *avagraha*).

Regards,

Piotr
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Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2024 09:16:36 -0400
Subject: [INDOLOGY] Writing anusvara with avagraha in devanagari
Dear list members,
What is the correct way to write anusvara with avagraha.
For example in Mahābharata 03,003,024c
 varuṇaḥ sāgaro 'ṁśuś ca jīmūto jīvano 'rihā
Should it be written  as सागरोऽंशुश्च or सागरोंऽशुश्च


Thanks,

Harry Spier



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Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2024 09:20:25 -0400
Subject: [INDOLOGY] CORRECTION: Writing anusvara with avagraha in devanagari
Dear list members,
I meant to write:
What is the correct way to write anusvara with avagraha in devanagari..
For example in Mahābharata 03,003,024c   varuṇaḥ sāgaro 'ṁśuś ca jīmūto
jīvano 'rihā
Should it be written  as सागरोऽंशुश्च or सागरोंऽशुश्

Thanks,

Harry Spier
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