Dear Dmytro,
These are hard questions to address. I think one could make a start by
comparing the simpler set of 51 rules in the sandhi chapter of Kaccāyana's
grammar—which is the earliest we have—with the set of 191 rules in the much
later Saddanīti (12th cent.). This could be extended by including
Moggallāna and even delving into Pāṇini. I don't know if any such
comparative studies have been attempted or published so far.
Kaccāyana's sandhi rules were covered in a series of posings to the group
from late December 2009 and throughout 2010 using Ven. U Nandisena's
translation.
I'm currently studying all the available commentaries on the two
introductory verses in Kaccāyana.
Best wishes,
Jim
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From: "aavuso@... [palistudy]" <palistudy@yahoogroups.com>
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Sent: April 3, 2017 3:22 PM
Subject: [palistudy] Sandhi chronology
Dear Pali friends,
My friend and me are working on a context-sensitive morphological analyzer
for Pali.
Of particular difficulty is the task of resolving sandhi.
With declensions, some of the case endings occur only in later Pali
literature.
Is there something similar with sandhi, - I suppose the earlier texts would
use a limited set of sandhi rules, while the later texts would use
significantly more rules?
Is there a kind of chronology of sandhi usage - with some rules used early
on, and some only much later?
Would you please help to sort the sandhi rules, e.g.
https://dubuddhiststudies.wordpress.com/2015/09/09/sandhi/
https://dubuddhiststudies.wordpress.com/2015/09/09/sandhi/
regarding their chronology of usage, and frequency of use?
This would help us to resolve the sandhi's correctly, taking in account
chronological layers of Pali texts.
Metta, Dmytro