Dear Martin and David,

One reason this phenomenon is called ārṣa is that it is quite common in the epic texts (the texts of the ṛṣi-s) such as, e.g. your Gītā passage.  There are, for example some nine examples in the critical edition (and apparatus) of the Uttarakāṇḍa of the Vālmīkirāmāyaṇa

Best,

Bob
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On Sep 12, 2016, at 1:20 PM, Buchta, David <david_buchta@brown.edu> wrote:

Hi Martin,

One such passage that comes to mind is Bhagavadgītā 11.44: priyāyārhasi

You can look at Oberlies, A Grammar of Epic Sanskrit, which has a whole section on this phenomenon (pp. 34-49).

Pāṇini's separation of the tripādī is important in formulating his rules to avoid double sandhi, so you may also want to look into that side of things (although I can't point you to specific scholarship off  the top of my head).

A typical commentarial response is to claim 'ārṣa' usage. Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa, for example, writes on BhG 11.44: priyāyārhasīti visargalopaḥ sandhiścārṣaḥ.

Best,
David

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David Buchta
Lecturer in Sanskrit
Department of Classics
Brown University

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 3:26 PM, Martin Gansten <martin.gansten@pbhome.se> wrote:
I seem to recall having read a discussion on instances of irregular, double sandhi (as in, say, vartate idam > vartata idam > vartatedam) on the Indology list, but I can't find it in the list archives. If anyone could point me either to the old posts (assuming that they exist outside my imagination) or to some useful discussion of the phenomenon (does it occur and, if so, where; how is it regarded, etc), I should be most grateful.

Martin Gansten


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