Re: Sanskrit -e/o a- Sandhi in Devanagari

From: Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2017 07:13:05 +0530

This seems quite reasonable.

On 25 Feb 2017 04:06, "Richard Wordingham" <richard.wordingham_at_ntlworld.com>
wrote:

> The usual form of this sandhi in modern Sanskrit is described as the a-
> dropping and being replaced by avagraha. If word boundaries are
> represented by SPACE, am I correct in believing that the change in
> codepoints is:
>
> <U+0020 SPACE, U+0905 LETTER A> becomes <U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE, U+093D
> DEVANAGARI SIGN AVAGRAHA>
>
> I ask because I have seen lines starting with avagraha, though within a
> line there seems not to be a space before avagraha. (I am ignoring
> didactic writing which shows sandhi effects but leaves a space between
> the original words.)
>
> Richard.
>
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