sukRtaan or sukRtaam lokaan

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Hi gang. I am told that the Mahabharata's familiar phrase

sukRtaalMlokaan (sorry for the inevitably hideous transliteration but

people will remember that it is supposed to represent double l with

anusvara over the first), whose sandhi would lead one to dissolve it

into sukRtaan lokaan, actually represents an unconventional sandhi for

sukRtaam lokaan that has been left in this odd form by the editors of

modern printed editions including the critical edition. Is this

understanding of the phrase and its history generally accepted by

sanskritists?

 

Phillip Ernest