The Laghu kaumudi : a Sanskrit grammar / with an English version, commentary, and references by James R. Ballantyne.

  • Varadarāja, active 17th century.
Date:
1881
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Credit: The Laghu kaumudi : a Sanskrit grammar / with an English version, commentary, and references by James R. Ballantyne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    8 THE LAGHU KAUMUDi : gfissrHiij i r^i i ?tai- No. 17.—Let a letter,.denoted by the pratydhdra AN, not propounded as AN AFFIX or operative agent, but as something to be operated upon, AND let in like manner A letter FOLLOWED BY AN indicatory u, be the name of ( and so imply ) its homoge- neous letters also. Here the pratydhdra an is made by the latter n (of the sixth of the sutras of &iva, viz. Ian, and not by the n at the end of the first sutra. The pratydhdra is therefore held to denote the semi-vowels as well as the vowels.) The letters above referred to, with an indi- catory u, are leu chu tu tu pu ; (leu represents the guttural class, chu the palatals, tu the cerebrals, tu the dentals, and pu the labials). Hence a is the name of (and implies) its eighteen several varieties (No. 13) : and so i and u. The vowel ri is the name of thirty (for it denotes its own eighteen varieties, aud the twelve varieties of hi, No. 13). So Iri also (for it denotes its own twelve varieties, and the eighteen modifications of ri). The diphthongs e ai o au (ech) are each the name of twelve. Through the distinction of nasal and non-nasal, ya va and la are twofold ; and, by this rule, the non- nasal form of each implies both. No. 18.—Let the closest proximity of letters be called contact (sahhitd). No. 19.—Let CONSONANTS UNSEPARATED by vowels be called A conjunction of consonants. spTspn: i WS5FFRT: \ \ \ \ \ ^ \ I 'H 8 I ? 8 I fh^ri g q^ira wig i wfh ggisraj-qm n \> ' '