The book and article Madhav refers to can be downloaded from: Phonetics in Ancient India, W.S. Allen https://archive.org/download/in.gov.ignca.7855/7855.pdf
APhonemic Interpretation of Visarga, A. H. Fry https://www.jstor.org/stable/409200 Harry Spier On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 6:41 PM Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY < [email protected]> wrote: > Here are some scholarly deliberations on visarga versus parasavarṇa in > Sanskrit: > > W. S. Allen (1953: 51): > > "In later, though still ancient, times there appears to have been a > tendency for -*ḥ* to extend its usage to contexts other than in pausa. > The earliest of these extensions was to the position before the initial > fricatives *ś, ṣ**, s,* > > where it replaced the homorganic final *ś, ṣ, s* (*indraśśūraḥ **> indraḥ > śūraḥ*, &c). This practice was then extended to the position before the velar > and labial voiceless stops: in connexion with this innovation we find > mentioned the names of Āgniveśya, Vālmīki, Śākalya, and the Mādhyandina > school, > whilst the ancient grammarian Śākaṭāyana is quoted as holding to the more > conservative practice." > > > Allen also refers to A. H. Fry’s (1941) view that “the spread of *-ḥ* was > due to the writers of Classical Sanskrit operating with a phonemic > orthography.” > > > Madhav M. Deshpande > Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics > University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA > Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies > Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India > > [Residence: Campbell, California, USA] > > ology <https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology> >
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