skd dbijAy

[funderburkjim]

Noticed an instance of 'dbijAya' (under headword 'yama'). Searching skd.txt led to 8 cases of 'dbijAy':

8 matches for "dbijAy" in buffer: skd.txt
 168698:<>narASaMso Bavati yadbijAyate ..”)
 191229:<>dbijAya yadaBIzwantu dattvA svargamavApnuyAt .
 197731:<>paradAragfhItAya yAjakAya dbijAya ca .
 233907:<>devAya dattvA nEvedyaM dbijAya na prayacCati .
 359429:<>“ekatripaYcasapta ca dbijAya dadyAt palAni
 377816:<>mAnubanDaH . yamayatyannaM dbijAya gfhI . anyatra
 378243:<>kulInAya suSAntAya rogahInadbijAya vE ..
 473814:<>dbijAya ca varizWAByAM mA teByo'stu samAgataH ..

And 22 cases of 'dvijAy':

22 matches for "dvijAy" in buffer: skd.txt
  71256:<P>6 dvijAya goDUmAnnaM dadyAt ..
  75537:<>dvijAya dadyAt vasanAni tAni ..
  78096:<>rdvijAya dadyAdaTa darBapARiH” ..
  78099:<>pAWaScAtra karttavyaH . dvijAya dadyAditi SruteH
 132044:<>nAqyAdidozaSAntyE dvijAya dozAkaragrahaRe ..”
 204359:<L>17438<pc>2-768<k1>dvijAyanI<k2>dvijAyanI
 204360:dvijAyanI¦, strI, (dvijaH ayyate jYAyate'nayeti .
 255414:<>pAtAle tu tato'DastAdyojanAnAM dvijAyute .
 268932:<>deyaM BAgavatAyedaM dvijAya prItipUrbbakam ..
 298320:<>dvijAya kutsitaM dattvA eza rohaka ucyate .. 4 ..
 318193:<>evamuccAryya taM dadyAddvijAya harirUpiRe .
 340948:<>vedatattvArTaviduze dvijAyE vopapAdayet ..
 356267:<>narASaMso Bavati yadvijAyate .
 376226:<>tram 2 brahmasUtram 3 dvijAyanI 4 . iti
 377821:<>parivezaRe tu yAmayatyannaM dvijAya gfhI ityAhuH .
 390555:<>dadyAddvijAya gurave jalapUrbbakaM tAm .
 412467:<>dvijAya sADuvfttAya kulInAya ca DImate .
 428106:<>matsyAnmocayato dvijAya dadato'pyAyuSciraM
 515127:<>“asmAdvijAyate viSvamatrEva pravilIyate .
 546098:<>ityuktvA taM samaByarccya dadyAt DenuM dvijAyate ..
 555144:<>kanyA satyavatI dattA fcIkAya dvijAya sA .
 577631:<>rdvijAya dadyAdaTa darBapARiH ..

Question 1

Should we change the 8 'dbijAy' to 'dvijAy'. I vote for yes. Recall that the 'b/v' distinction is very difficult in SKD scans, due to print quality. Also 'dvijAya' is meaningful ('dvi-jAya' - related to 'dvija' (twice born).)

[funderburkjim]

Broader question

There are likely many other cases in SKD where we can make a quite convincing argument that 'b' should be 'v', or vice-versa.

Any ideas of how to find many of those cases?

[drdhaval2785]

I vote for keeping them as they are. In Bengal, there is non-distinction of b/v. Therefore, bengali scholars used them interchangeably.

Correcting b/v inconsistencies will lead to various other problems like alphabetic misorderings of headwords

[gasyoun]

I vote for keeping them as they are.

I vote for adding alternative headwords for finding purposes.

lead to various other problems like alphabetic misorderings of headwords

In our remake I would not worry much about that, but more about how to find words with possible variations in orthography.

Any ideas of how to find many of those cases?

The o_O old way comparison, no?

[funderburkjim]

alphabetic misorderings of headwords

Note that all of the 'dbijAy' cases above are within text, not within the 'meta' line. So changing 'dbijAy' to 'dvijAy' would NOT introduce any alphabetic misorderings of headwords.

If Bengali scholars use b/v interchangeably, then they would be happy with or without the change. Non-Bengali scholars would be happier with the change.

Since we aren't in agreement on this change at this time, I'll forego making the change.

[gasyoun]

Non-Bengali scholars would be happier with the change.

Right.

Since we aren't in agreement on this change at this time, I'll forego making the change.

We are in agreement - ghostwords, alternative headwords is the key as before.