[Y-Indology] beginner's question about the letter's name

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Dear list members:

 

1)

Madhav Deshpande wrote:

>the long variety of

>this vowel [L] does not occur in any item of the Sanskrit vocabulary.

 

One thing I've noticed is that while long vowel L does not occur in any

words it does occur as a letter in some Kashmir Shaivite texts in the

description of a mystical theology concerning the letters of the Sanskrit

alphabet. (For example see the first two lines of page 14 of the K.S.T.S.

edition of the Tantrasara.) So any font used to reproduce these texts needs

long vocalic L in its character set.

 

2) About the name of another letter, I've always wondered why instead of

like the other letters the consonent r is not called rakara but is called

repha instead.

 

Best,

 

 

Harry Spier

371 Brickman Rd.

Hurleyville, New York

USA 12747

 

 

 

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