I really dislike the "echoing" pronunciation of visarga in modern Sanskrit.
Did Sapan comment on whether Sanskrit speakers in his time also echoed the preceding vowel or pronounce it as just an aspiration?
Did Sapan write on visarga?
Re: Did Sapan write on visarga?
I notice visarga is not really pronounced at all in Tibetan
Re: Did Sapan write on visarga?
Pali cognates to Sanskrit words with visarga regular drop it or assimilate it to a succeeding consonant.
I guess that means circa 4th century BCE visarga was already very lightly pronounced if at all in daily practice. The modern pronunciation of "aha" "ihi" is completely ahistorical and ruins the metre of verses.
I guess that means circa 4th century BCE visarga was already very lightly pronounced if at all in daily practice. The modern pronunciation of "aha" "ihi" is completely ahistorical and ruins the metre of verses.
Re: Did Sapan write on visarga?
Apparently there is a Vedic school of recitation surviving to the present that pronounces visarga as /f/:
https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=CK ... ls&f=false
It is even in Panini!
https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=CK ... ls&f=false
It is even in Panini!