SV: viyoga (Kc 10)

Dear Jim,

I think that Kacc-v understands the meaning of adho.tha "standing below" in
the manner I suggested, because it describes the vowel separated from the
consonant as put above (upari) the consonant i.e. the consonant cluster, and
the following sutta states that when possible (yutte) it is to be combined
with the following vowel, in the present case a+a > aa is written on top of
the consonantal ligature. The same practice is presupposed by Vararuci who
is credited with a small prakrit grammar, see Prak.rtaprakaa.sa III.1-2.
Sénart who translated Kacc did not understand the meaning of the term
adho.tha and Cowell was evidently uncertain about how to interpret the term
adho < Sanskrit adhas "below" of his source.

Ole

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Emne: Re: [palistudy] viyoga (Kc 10)

Dear Ole,

I have to disagree that this rule is about how to write Pali and not about
sandhi. Do you agree with the vutti interpretation? It contains "tattha
sandhi.m kattukaamo..." (wishing to perform sandhi therein). "adho.thita.m"
could just as well be describing the antecedent position of the consonant.
Doesn't this rule relate to one of the 10 sandhi functions (sandhikiccaani)
called 'viyoga' which is defined at Sadd 24 (p. 609,23) as "sarato
vinibbhogo". I don't think the final short vowel of "tatra" is added to
"aya.m" according to Kaccaayana. Rather, the initial short "a" of "aya.m" is
changed to a long "a" (Kacc 15). I believe Paa.nini treats the coalescence
of such vowels differently.

Jim

<< The interesting thing about this rule is that it does not address sandhi
but how to write Pali: the idea is that one writes a consonant below
(adho.thita.m) the previous one, removes the vowel from it adding it to the
immediately subsequent one.

Ole Pind >>





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