The use of word dividers is very widespread in manuscripts from Northern India and Nepal in general—for instance, it is developed to
a high degree of exactness in Jaina manuscripts. As to the use of blank spaces between words, my impression is that blank spaces were used to separate syntactic units in prose or verses already early on, but not for single words systematically.
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From: victor davella [mailto:vbd203@googlemail.com]
Sent: 15 May 2018 18:06
To: McComas Taylor <McComas.Taylor@anu.edu.au>; indology@list.indology.info
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Spaces between words in Sanskrit manuscripts?
For one specific case of markers used to indicate word boundaries, see Hahn's 2007 edition of the Kapphiṇābhyudaya pp. 4ff. I have also found them in other MSS, mostly from Nepal.
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Victor
On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 6:02 AM, McComas Taylor via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote: