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The fame with a ftrong breathing after it, as in 

 Vaicunl'ha, or unwearied, an epithet of Vijhnu. 



A remarkable letter, which the Muflimans call the 

 Indian ddl ; and exprefs, alfo, by four points over it: 

 but it mould, by analogy to the others, bediftinguifhed 

 by an accentual mark, as in the word dancla, punifh- 

 ment. When the tongue is inverted with a flight vi- 

 bratory motion, this letter has a mixture of the ra, 

 with which it is often, but incorreclly, confounded; as 

 in the common word bera for becia, great. It refembles 

 the Arabian Had. 



The preceding letter afpirated, as in D'hdcd, impro- 

 perly pronounced Dacca. In the fame manner may be 

 written the Arabian tihd, but without the comma, 

 fince its afpirate is lefs diftinclly heard than in the In- 

 dian found. 



This is the nafal of the third feries, and formed by 

 a fimilar inverfion of the tongue. In Sanfcrit words it 

 ufually follows the letters ra andjlia, (as in Brdhmeha, 

 derived from Brahman, the Supreme Being; Vi/hhu, a 



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