On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 8:49 PM Elliot Stern via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

. Incidentally, the avagrahaḥ in the copper plate inscription is an instance, in Whitney’s terminology, of a hyphen. The text reads: vā’numodeta.

Does that mean the practice in some modern printed editions of using avagraha and double avagrahas to indicate the assimilations of a+a, ā+ā, ā+a etc. is actually quite old?

Harry Spier