I don't currently have access to my books and papers, but I believe for Panini the only optionality or exceptions to nati all involve morphological boundaries - either nominal compounding, or preverb-verb compounding. 

Are there any genuine examples of exceptions/optionality of nati not involving a morphological boundary (parallel to the many exceptions to ruki, like kusuma-)?

If we could split Korona- into something like Kora-una-, then perhaps we could have the optionality; but then again for Panini, the tendency is that compounds forming names are more disposed to nati than freely formed compounds, so even as a compound name we would expect the retroflex, I think.

John



From: INDOLOGY <indology-bounces@list.indology.info> on behalf of Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info>
Sent: 29 March 2020 05:22
To: Harry Spier <vasishtha.spier@gmail.com>
Cc: indology@list.indology.info <INDOLOGY@list.indology.info>
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Retroflexion and gender in viruses
 
Dear Harry,

     There are similar alternating usages found in Sanskrit as well and authorized by Panini, for example -

विभाषौषधिवनस्पतिभ्यः ८।४।६

काशिकावृत्ति - वनम् इत्येव। ओषधिवाचि यत् पूर्वपदं वनस्पतिवाचि च तत्स्थान् निमित्तादुत्तरस्य वननकारस्य णकार आदेशो भवति विभाषा। ओषधिवाचिभ्यस् तावत् दूर्वावणम्, दूर्वावनम्। मूर्वावणम्, मूर्वावनम्। वनस्पतिभ्यः शिरीषवणम्, शिरीषवनम्। बदरीवणम्, बदरीवनम्।

Madhav M. Deshpande
Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies

[Residence: Campbell, California, USA]


On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 2:46 PM Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

Mathew Kapstein: कोरोण
Others कोरोना


On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 7:08 AM Matthew Kapstein via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:
With so many mahākavi-s on this list, you will have to forgive me this silly amateurism (with Tibetan translation):

कोरोणराक्षसं दृष्ट्वा रामोऽकरोच्चिन्तामेव।
क्लीबमूर्खतर एष अथवा हिंसाकोविदः॥

ཀོ་རོ་ཎ་ཡི་བདུད་མཐོང་ནས།།

ར་མ་ཎ་ཡིས་བསམ་བློ་བྱེད།།

ཆེས་ཞན་བླུན་པོ་ཡིན་པའམ།།

གནོད་པའི་ཐབས་ལ་མཁས་པ་ངེས།།



Matthew

Matthew Kapstein
Directeur d'études, émérite
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris

Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies,
The University of Chicago
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