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

[Harry Spier]

Thank you Madhav,
What you say makes sense.  I had thought it had something to do with the
anusvara, but what you say makes more sense.
Harry Spier


On Thu, Jun 6, 2024 at 11:47 PM Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Madhav Deshpande <mmdesh at umich.edu>
> Date: Thu, Jun 6, 2024 at 8:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Fwd: CORRECTION: Writing anusvara with avagraha in
> devanagari (Harry Spier)
> To: Harry Spier <vasishtha.spier at gmail.com>
>
>
> Hello Harry,
>
>      If you carefully look at the page from Belvalkar's edition of the BG,
> he uses the Avagraha in वासुदेवोऽस्मि, but not in तेजोंशसम्भवम्. His logic
> seems to be that there should be an Avagraha between separate Padas, but
> not within a single compound.  Gambhirananda does not seem to make this
> distinction.
>
> Madhav
>
> Madhav M. Deshpande
> Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics
> University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
> Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies
> Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India
>
> [Residence: Campbell, California, USA]
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 6, 2024 at 8:22 PM Harry Spier <vasishtha.spier at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Madhav,
>> It appears that it's not just manuscripts that leave out avagraha but
>> also modern printed editions.
>> As Piotr Balcerowicz pointed out, Mahabarata critical edition 3,3,24 does
>> use avagraha, but if you look at Bhagavad-gItA verse 10-41 in the
>> Mahabharata critical edition which is Mahabharata 6,32,41 (page attached )
>> you will see that Belvakar did not use avagraha. And in Belvalkar's printed
>> edition of the Bhagavad-gItA for that verse he did not put in avagraha.  On
>> the other hand, Sw. Gambhirananda in his edition (page also attached) did
>> use avagraha.
>> Harry Spier
>>
>>
>>>
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