[Y-Indology] karmma

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I think it's just an alternative orthographic convention.

 

Valerie J Roebuck

Manchester, UK

 

>I'm reading a text of the Gita that is full of consonant doublings like

>karmma, sarvva, arjjuna (but karma and so on also appear). Local

>Sanskritists have not been able to enlighten me, which was a surprise.

>This doubling surely reflects some regional pronunciation? I have seen it

>before, but never so consistently and frequently throughout a text. It's

>a volume of the gopiinaathakaviraajagranthamaalaa, but their other Gitas

>have the normal text.

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On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Valerie J Roebuck wrote:

 

> I think it's just an alternative orthographic convention.

 

I just wonder what is the system that underlies it, since it is sometimes

karma and sometimes karmma.

 

Phillip

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Such optional doubling of consonants is permitted even by Panini's rules (cf.

P.8.4.46 aco rahAbhyAm dve; P.8.4.47 anaci ca). One finds such optional

doubling in manuscripts coming from certain regions, often from Bengal, but not

limited to it. It is seen even in Devanagari manuscripts. In my HOS

vol. 61 edition of the JaTApAtha and KramapATha of the ZaunakIya Atharvaveda I

have noted such doublings in the footnotes. Normally if a

manuscript shows this pattern, it is seen consistently followed, at least in the

manuscripts that I have used for my edition. Best,

 

Madhav Deshpande

 

INDOLOGY, phillip.ernest@u... wrote:

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> On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Valerie J Roebuck wrote:

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> > I think it's just an alternative orthographic convention.

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> I just wonder what is the system that underlies it, since it is sometimes

> karma and sometimes karmma.

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> Phillip