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Preface The present work Sound Synthesis in Indo-European, Indo-Iranian and Sanskrit is finally published now, and scholars who are wating for it since so many years will be happy to see it.
The word sound-synthesis is used by me as a technical term translating and rather rendering Skt sandhi which has an alternative form sambitā. Gk Synthesis is equivalent to Skt sambitiḥ<IE sem-thotis. I have used the word sound-synthesis to keep its use free from confusion, as the word synthesis has been used for other purposes.
Sandbi in Skt has been well worked out by Panini etc. in ancient days and by Whitney and Macdonell etc. in rocent times. But a full-fledged historical treatment was rather lacking. In this work I have made a faithful attempt to draw a comprehensive picture of the historical treatment of Skt sandhi. I first of all had to work out as to how much sandhi developed in the IE stage and how far the picture changed in the IIr stage and how much innovation is to be attributed to Skt.
IE sandhi was worked out by me long before and was published in the form of two articles, JE Vowel Synthesis and IE Consonant Synthesis in the pages of Linguistic Researches Vol. I and Vol. IV respectively. The rest of the material was unpublished. I have worked out details of the history of the exceptional sandhi forms of Skt, which is an additional important part of this work.
I will be happy if my labour is of use to the scholary world.
I am grateful to M/S Ashutosh Prakashan Sansthan for taking interest in publication of this work. Varanasi 11.12.86
Satya Swarup Misra (Gitā Jayanti)
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