Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c7.s1: § 1. Ṛig and Yajur Vedas

Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c7.s1

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§ 1. Ṛig and Yajur Vedas

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In the oldest MSS. only the udātta is marked. In the Telugu MSS. this is generally done by a circle o; in the Grantha MSS. the letter u or a circle is written above the syllable, thus: உ, o. In this respect MSS. of the Saṃhitā and Padapāṭha agree¹. In the last the words are separated by a perpendicular stroke: | The avagraha is seldom marked, but when it is done a zigzag line is used: ⎨

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¹ As I have repeatedly stated elsewhere, the Atharva Veda is unknown to the S. Indian Brahmans. In Weber's "Indische Studien" (xiii., 118) there is an account of the accentuation of a Nandināgarī MS. of the Ṛig Veda.

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Ṛgvedasaṃhitā — Sanskrit
Saṃhitā