Dear Harry,

All printed editions reproduce the passage is as: सागरोंऽशुश्च, e.g. the Poona edition:

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Avagraha is historically introduced later. Anusvāra is already represented in the Aśokan Brāhmī script, which means it is an old concept, and represented thereafter in various scripts, whereas svagraha is introduced only much later to Indic scripts. Early manuscripts  frequently do not contain the avagraha sign at all. So, in historically earlier period (when avagraha was no yet there) we would expect to read सागरोंशुश्च, in which the anusvāra would obviously be written over the preceding akṣara. The insertion of the avagraha into this sequence of akṣaras (सागरोंऽशुश्च) should therefore not change much and the anusvāra should remain in its (historically) original place (where it would have been, before the inventions of avagraha).

Regards,

Piotr

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Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2024 09:16:36 -0400
Subject: [INDOLOGY] Writing anusvara with avagraha in devanagari
Dear list members,
What is the correct way to write anusvara with avagraha. 
For example in Mahābharata 03,003,024c 
 varuṇaḥ sāgaro 'ṁśuś ca jīmūto jīvano 'rihā
Should it be written  as सागरोऽंशुश्च or सागरोंऽशुश्च


Thanks,

Harry Spier




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Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2024 09:20:25 -0400
Subject: [INDOLOGY] CORRECTION: Writing anusvara with avagraha in devanagari
Dear list members,
I meant to write:
What is the correct way to write anusvara with avagraha in devanagari.. 
For example in Mahābharata 03,003,024c   varuṇaḥ sāgaro 'ṁśuś ca jīmūto jīvano 'rihā
Should it be written  as सागरोऽंशुश्च or सागरोंऽशुश्

Thanks,

Harry Spier