About hyphens.mmmmmmmmm ^ C- 1545

In old times Sanskrit was written without spaces --

doSairetaiHkulaghnAnAMvarNasaGMkarakArakaiH | utsAdyantejAtidharmAHkuladharmAzcazAzvatAH ||

The modern custom of book publishers makes spaces compulsory after words that end in a vowel, a topdot or a dotdot, unless the space would break a compound --

doSairetaiH kulaghnAnAM varNasaGMkarakArakaiH | utsAdyante jAtidharmAH kuladharmAzca zAzvatAH ||

For some reason that escapes me, Westerners that use Roman letters to write Sanskrit add spaces after every word, unless the space would break a compound --

doSair etaiH kulaghnAnAM varNasaGMkarakArakaiH | utsAdyante jAtidharmAH kuladharmAz ca zAzvatAH ||

And as far as I know no one uses hyphens after the wordfinal letter that is inside a compound, this way --

doSair etaiH kula-ghnAnAM varNa-saGMkara-kArakaiH | ut-sAdyante jAti-dharmAH kula-dharmAz ca zAzvatAH ||

Yet, I do that sometimes, because I have verified that these hyphens make reading easier for my students.

Also, I am in the habit of writing a hyphen after a nounbase, just to clarify that this is a nounbase that has not yet gotten its sup added. For instance, in --

azva- + @calling su → azvas →eGhra azva

the first azva- has hyphen because it is a nounbase that has not yet received a sup affix,

the azvas is a word because it has already gotten su,

and the second azva has no hyphen because it is full word that has already received a su (even though it was erased later).

Similarly, in --

brahman- + Gas + loka- + su → brahmasya + lokas →supodhA brahman + lokas →nalopaHprA brahmalokas

the first brahman- is a nounbase, because it has not yet gotten Gas,

the second brahman is a word, because it first got Gas, then lost it.

Spelling of wordfinal s in this website.mmmmmmmmm ^ M- C- 1547

In this website, sometimes I type things like --

' When we add the s of su after azva- we get the word azvas, which means horse. '

By typing the word this way I'm going against a long tradition of grammar teachers, as they always write the words that are alone, and have s or r at the end, with an H instead --

' When we add the s of su after azva- we get the word azvaH, which means horse. '

It is because of this tradition that when you type kapiraplavatapunareva into inria reader, it tells you that the sentence is made by adding together kapiH + aplavata + punaH + eva. inria writes the final s and the final r of words as H in order to show respect to tradition.

I have a great respect for tradition. However, I have a greater respect for my students, so I don't do that replacing when I think that beginners might find it confusing. That's why I spell sometimes --

kapis + aplavata + punar + eva

My students already know that if they read aloud the word kapis followed by a pause, they must apply sasaju and kharava, no matter if I spell it as kapis or kapir or kapiH or kapiz. I do not need to spell the word always as kapiH to remind them of that every single time.