Re: Devanagari composing help needed

From: William J Poser (wjposer@ldc.upenn.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 07 2007 - 09:28:59 CDT

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    Chris writes:

    >I seen a handful of examples in old texts where both a virama and vowel
    >*do* occur on the same conjunct.

    Hmm. That certainly never occurs in Sanskrit that I can recall.
    Does it mean something or is it just an error, i.e. a case in
    which the writer first wrote the virama and then realized he or
    she needed a following vowel? Were these handwritten texts or
    printed?

    Bill

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