search

sanskrit-lexicon / SKD

Discussion of corrections and other issues pertaining to Sabdakalpadruma dictionary at Sanskrit-Lexicon
0 stars 0 forks source link

ड्२अ > ड़ #4

Closed Shalu411 closed 3 years ago

Shalu411 commented 9 years ago

Namaste Instead of ड्२अ - for the letter D with a dot below, could you please use that letter directly? It is there in Mangal font- ड़ I do not know why this letter is given so complicated way, what issues there in it. Its difficult to make it out in first instance, without seeing scan. Thanks

Shalu411 commented 9 years ago

Eg. केयूरं [L=8811] [p= 2-194] [...] ताड्२अ इति भाषा । [...]

funderburkjim commented 9 years ago

That annoying '2' is now removed.

Here's the background information as I understand it. In the scans, there is a 'dot' under the Devanagari letter, as you point out. This dot is called 'nukta'. This reference http://anshumanpandey.blogspot.com/2013/11/siddham-nukta.html provides one view of it.

I believe Peter thinks this nukta serves no useful purpose in Sanskrit.

However, since it was in the scans for SKD, Thomas included it in the coding of SKD.

I have not felt confident to remove it from skd.txt (in case it is found at some later time to have significance), so my fix is just to inhibit the display of the nukta. In fact, the original coding of the display for skd made the nukta invisible, but some changes to the skd system made recently undid the invisibility. Now, the nukta is back to blessed invisibility for skd displays.

Incidentally, there are nuktas coded in vcp, but with a '.' instead of a '2' in vcporig.txt And, in the current vcp.txt, the nukta is represented with '' in vcp.txt, for example under headword 'a', <>Bede ca SaktiH sAdfSyodO tu nirUQ_alakzaRA . tatra aGawa-

But this '*' is also made invisible in the displays for vcp: image

gasyoun commented 9 years ago

Can you add a list of what is invisible to the downloadable files as well, please?

drdhaval2785 commented 3 years ago

I think down the line @funderburkjim got the courage to remove the nuktas from skd.txt too. Can you give a background to it Jim? There is no d2 in the skd.txt now.