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The preceding letter afpirated, as in the word 

 J' haflia, a fifh. 



This is the fecond nafal, compofed of the former and 

 the letter ya. As the Italian word agnello and our 

 onion contain a compoiition of n and y, they (hould 

 regularly be written anyello and cnyon ; and the Indian 

 found differs only in the greater nafality of the firft let- 

 ter, which may be diltinguifhed, as before, by a. point. 

 A very ufeful Sanfcrit root, fignifying to know, begins 

 with the letter ja, followed by this compound nafal, 

 and mould be written jnyd ; whence jhydna, know- 

 ledge: but this harih combination is in Bengal fatten- 

 ed into gyd : it is expreffed by a diftin6t character, 

 which ftands laft in the plate annexed,* 



In the curious work entitled TolifahiCl Hind, or, The 

 Prefent of India, this is ihe fourth feries of Sanfcrit 

 letters; but, in general, it has the third rank, more 

 agreeably, I think, to the analogy of the fyftem. This 

 clafs is pronounced with an inflexion of the tongue to- 

 wards the roof of the mouth, which gives an obtufe 

 found to the confonant, and may be diftinguifhed by an 

 accent above it. The firft is the Indian fa, as in the 

 word coiara, a rotten tree, and is commonly exprefied 

 in Perfian writings by Jour points, but would be better 

 marked by the Arabian /i, which it very nearly re- 

 fembles. 



The 

 * Plate II. 



