One can hear the anagrams/pause in the recitations of the Padapatha even today. <span></span><br><br>On Saturday, August 20, 2016, Marco Franceschini &lt;<a href="mailto:franceschini.marco@fastwebnet.it">franceschini.marco@fastwebnet.it</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>The <i>Vājasaneyi Prātiśākhya</i> mentions that:</div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i>samāse’vagraho hrasvasamakālaḥ</i> (5.1)</div><div><br></div><div>“In [the padapāṭha of] a compound, the avagraha has the same time has a hrasva vowel.”</div></div></blockquote></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div></div></div><div>The same is stated in the <i>Ṛgvedaprātiśākhya</i>:</div><div><br></div><div><i>mātrā hrasvaḥ</i> (1.27) <i>tāvad avagrahāntaram</i> (1.28): “A short vowel has one mora. That much is the interval of an <i>avagraha.</i>”</div><div><br></div><div>In his commentary Uvaṭa says: <i>hrasvasvaro mātrākālo devitavyaḥ | yathā a ṛ i u ḷ iti |</i></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><br><div>
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<br><div><div>Il giorno 17/ago/2016, alle ore 03:34, Nityanand Misra &lt;<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,&#39;cvml&#39;,&#39;nmisra@gmail.com&#39;);" target="_blank">nmisra@gmail.com</a>&gt; ha scritto:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>The <i>Vājasaneyi Prātiśākhya</i> mentions that:</div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i>samāse’vagraho hrasvasamakālaḥ</i> (5.1)</div><div><br></div><div>“In [the padapāṭha of] a compound, the avagraha has the same time has a hrasva vowel.”</div><div><br></div><div>The commentaries of Uvaṭa and Anantabhaṭṭa explain that the ‘avagraha’ is separation of a compound into its constituent elements:</div><div><br></div><div>Uvaṭa: <i>dvayoḥ padayoḥ pṛthaggrahaṇo&#39;vagrahaḥ। nānāgraha ityarthaḥ। hrasvasamakālo hrasvākṣaratulyakālo bhavati।</i></div><div>Anantabhaṭṭa: <i>avagraho nāma dvayoḥ padayoḥ pṛthakkaraṇam। sa ca hrasvākṣarasamakālo bhavati।</i></div><div><br></div><div>However, this applies to the <i>padapāṭha</i> and not to the <i>saṃhitāpāṭha</i>. </div><div><br></div><div>Nowadays, the <i>avagraha</i> sign is used to show what is called <i>akārapraśleṣa</i>. </div><div><br></div><div>In Vedic <i>saṃhitāpāṭha</i> or in laukika poetry, the <i>avagraha</i> is not considered a syllable for prosodic purposes.</div><div><br></div><div>For more on this, please refer the entry on अवग्रह (<i>avagraha</i>) in <i>A Dictionary of Sanskrit Grammar</i> by K.V. Abhyankar </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 17 August 2016 at 05:14, Harry Spier <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,&#39;cvml&#39;,&#39;hspier.muktabodha@gmail.com&#39;);" target="_blank">hspier.muktabodha@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Clarification about my question.  What I meant to ask was  avagraha ever pronounced as a pause and if so was it considered a syllable in Sanskrit metrics.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Harry</div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 6:12 PM, Harry Spier <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,&#39;cvml&#39;,&#39;hspier.muktabodha@gmail.com&#39;);" target="_blank">hspier.muktabodha@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>In Sanskrit meter is avagraha ignored or is it considered as a short syllable?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Harry Spier</div></div>
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