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

[Harry Spier]

Thank you Piotr, very clear. And thank you to Elaine Fisher and Matthew
Kapstein who replied off list.
Harry Spier


On Thu, Jun 6, 2024 at 4:52 PM Piotr Balcerowicz via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear Harry,
>
> All printed editions reproduce the passage is as: *सागरों**ऽशुश्च*, e.g.
> the Poona edition:
> [image: image.png]
>
> *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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>
>
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> From: Harry Spier <vasishtha.spier at gmail.com>
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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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> From: Harry Spier <vasishtha.spier at gmail.com>
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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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