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included among the sjqRqtf letters
analogous to anusvara and yama
letters. It is mentioned in the
Vajasaneyi Pratisakhya as |
on which U vvata makes
the reinark 3TO3 :. The
Rk-Pratisakhya mentions qii.
and as ?nRf-i3 or nasal letters,
while U vvata defines JftRm as a
letter produced only by the nose ;
cf. ^-qsfiifw -ir 3^ m o if ^ ir ^lfgwqi
Uvvata on R. Pr. I. 20. The Taittiriya
Pratisakhya calls the letter^
as nasikya when it is followed by
the consonant q^orm.or ^ and gives
35m , STTC1® and as instances.
The Paniniya Sik?a does not mention
as a letter The Mahabhasya
mentions JuSteq as one of
the six ayogavaha letters; cf. %
l*h. on Sivasutra
5 Vart, 5, where some manuscripts,
read infgsfq for wijpfirafq while in
some other manuscripts there is
neither the word srt-P'tRm nor
TTlfffW. It is likely that the anuna-
sika-colouring given to the vowel
preceding the consonant g. substituted
for the consonants jt, % and
others by P. V III. 3.2. to 12, was
looked up jn as a separate phonetic
unit and called ;nferq as for instance
xn nr fifat: , gfsraift etc.
^ ( «rar)
^ m , a letter called which is
u ;t:re i partijf through the nose.
A class consonant excepting the
tilth, when followed bj' the, fifth
viz. % ^ o r ^ ,g e t s doubled
in the Vedic recital, when the
second of the doubled consonant
which is coloured by the following
nasal consonant is called *ijt. This
qrt letter is not independent. It
necessarily depends upon the follow­
ing nasal consonant and hence it is
called arnljRTf. The nasalization is
shown in script as x followed by the
consonant; e. g.
etc. The pronunciation of this yama
o r . twin letter is seen in the Vedic
recital only ; cf. qfesjvRT. . . eft
fTfBfqir sw 'Wf; S. K. on P. V III. 2.
I •' 1. cf. f & 3 1 sfir *un:
?»qfJst v . Pr. V III. 24.
\ ( i ) the consonant ^5; the first consonant
of the consonant group as
also of the guttural group ; (2 )
- substitute g; for consonants %and $
before the consonant^; cf. V. P.
2.41. For the elision ( s it ) of ^ on
account of its being termed 55, see
P. I. 3 3 and 8.
sp ( 1 ) tad. affix jr applied to the
words of the.!R3iq group in the four
senses called e. g. sRSqsR,
% er: etc , cf. P. IV. 2,80;
( 2 ) tad; affix ^ applied to nouns
in the sense of diminution, censure,
pity etc. e. g. s m :, 5 ^ 3 ^ :, cf.
P. V. 3.70-S7 ; ( 3) tad. affix q; in
the very sense of the word itself
( ) e. g. sifts;;, %i®er: ; cf.
P. V. 4.28-33; ( 4 ) Unadi affix m
e. g £?,%, m , ?IW, tHi, 71%
etc. by Unadi sutras III. 40-48
before which the augment is
prohibited by P. VII. 2,9 ; ( 5 } krt
affix % ( a? ) where % is dropped by
P. I. 3.8, applied, in the sense of
agent, to certain roots mentioned
in P. III. 1.135, 136. 144. H I. 2.3 to
7, III. 2.77 and III. 3.83 e.g. §sr:,
sre’-r:, tq :, Jjsfqgsr, w w ,
g*T