[INDOLOGY] unsandhied juncture

[Dominik Wujastyk]

I think "the condition saṃhitāyām" mentioned by Jan, and implicitly by
Jonathan, is the key.  Authors and reciters have had different allegiances,
so to speak, to this rule, but it's clear enough that for Pāṇini, sandhi
rules were conditional upon contiguous speech.  Letters transform when they
touch each other, sonically, not when they do. not (nobody says "do.  n't").

In the Nepalese MSS that I've been working with over the last few years,
dating from ninth-sixteenth centuries, there is a variety of scribal (or
spoken?) usage in all the directions that have been mentioned.  Very often
there is an anusvāra at the end of a śloka, suggesting rapid recitation
with the following śloka.  Sometimes, but more rarely, there are hiatuses
inside a sentence.  And so on.  The attitude to sandhi application seems
quite variable.  I'm sorry to say, however, that I haven't kept note of
these variations.

Best wishes,
Dominik

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