नमः to be pronounced as namaha or namah -request for guidance from Prof Korada and/or other learned scholars

[Nagaraj Paturi]

There is a facebook post by one Sri Surajit Dasgupta ji :

Let me include Sanskrit in the #SurajitEdits series.

The most mispronounced syllable or vowel of consonantal allophone is the visarga. Even otherwise learned Sanskrit pundits pronounce अः as 'aha' instead of 'ah' [IPA /ɐh/]. नमः becomes नमह and even नमहा!

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Nagaraj Paturi

 

Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA.

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BoS, MIT School of Vedic Sciences, Pune, Maharashtra

BoS Kavikulaguru Kalidasa Sanskrit University, Ramtek, Maharashtra

BoS Veda Vijnana Gurukula, Bengaluru.

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BoS Rashtram School of Public Leadership

Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Studies in Public Leadership

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FLAME School of Communication and FLAME School of  Liberal Education, 

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[Subrahmanyam Korada]

नमो विद्वद्भ्यः

One has to learn the pronunciation from  गुरु and to be careful that there will not be any influence of Mother Tongue .

वेद is called श्रुति as it is learnt through listening .

The pronunciation of विसर्ग -- अः  is different from ह । रामः is not रामह , i e it is not completely / exactly ह ।

हरिः - गुरुः - गौः  -- in such examples the विसर्ग is not ह (assimilation?) . 

Why there is a problem ?  -- अ-कु-ह-विसर्जनीयानां कण्ठः -- both हकार and विसर्ग are articulated in the same place -- कण्ठः ।

Patanjali calls विसर्ग by the name अयोगवाहः  (महाभाष्यम्- हयवरट् ) -- not included in अच् or हल्  ( no उपदेश ) but are heard (in usages) .

It is a common error often seen / found with many , including Sanskrit Scholars that विसर्ग is pronounced like / as ह ।

ञ म ङ ण न - the अनुनासिकवर्णाः are mispronounced by many .

Food habits also have some impact on pronunciation.

धन्यो’स्मि

Dr.Korada Subrahmanyam
Professor of Sanskrit (Retd)

299 Doyen , Serilingampally, Hyderabad 500 019
Ph:09866110741

Skype Id: Subrahmanyam Korada

Blog: Koradeeyam.blogspot.in 

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[Nagaraj Paturi]

The following videos were shared on BVP in an older thread :

https://youtu.be/dSY_ZOtTjuM

https://youtu.be/F5hrIWTeL_E

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There are these two videos teaching pronunciation of Sanskrit to an English speaking audience :

https://youtu.be/LQ73NSNO2Co

https://youtu.be/bmlx2L8tzeM

Here, the teacher is advising the echo type pronunciation, aha, ihi, uhu, ēhe, ōho, aihi, ouhu 

But in the comments below these videos, there are positions taken on both sides. 

Regarding the effect of the echo type pronunciation on meter , the teacher seems to be a little shaky in his stand. 

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HH Swamiji himself in the first two videos above, uses the echo type pronunciation in his own pronunciation. In his explanation , if I am not missing something, there is no conclusive stand presented, whether echo type pronunciation is to be followed or just 'h' ending is to be followed.  

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[Nagaraj Paturi]

There is an interesting etymology for visarga given in this commentary to Paniniya Shikshaa edited by Manmohan Ghosh. 

The full book is available at 

https://archive.org/details/PaniniyaShiksha

[Nagaraj Paturi]

The etymology given is 

विविधं सृज्यते क्षिप्यते इति विसर्गः ।

[Nagaraj Paturi]

 अयोगवाहा विज्ञेया आश्रयस्थानभागिनः

 ------ पाणिनीय शिक्षा 

Probably  आश्रयस्थानभागिनः has the clue.