115 



Tatthodanta sara attha. 



Tattha akkharesu okaranta. attha sard nama. 

 Thus as far as o eight vowels. 



Thus the eight letters from a to o inclusive are called vowels. 

 Tattheti wattate. 

 Carry* on ' ' tattha. " 

 Lahu matta tayo rassa. 



Tattha saresu lahu matta a i u iti tayo rassa* 

 The three quickly pronounced are short. 

 Thus amongst vowels the three quickly pronounced, viz., 

 a i u are short. 



Anne digha. 



Tattha saresu rassehnnne digha — sanyogato pubbe e o rassa 

 iwochchante kwachi — anantara byanjana s-i^yogo- — Ettha seyyo 

 ottho sotthi. 



The rest long. 



Thus amongst vowels, exclusive of the short vowels, ths-rest 

 are long. Before compound consonants e and o are pronounced 

 short, at option. Compound consonants are consonants next 

 each other. [Examples] 

 Ettha, seyyo, ottho, sotthi, 

 Sesit byanjana; 



* That is to say, " let tattha be understood in the following rule." 

 vide Ballantyne's Laghu Kaumudi, page 2. "A word which is not seen 

 in a sutra, but which is necessary to complete the sense, is always to be 

 supplied from some other sutra. The reason of this is as follows : in 

 the treatises of the Sanskrit Grammarians, brevity is regarded as a primary 

 requisite. According - to the author of the Mahaohashya, or great com- 

 mentary, 'the grammarians esteem the abbreviation of half a short 

 vowel as equivalent to the birth of a son.' 



Accordingly Panini in his Ashtadhyayi r or ' Grammar in eight lectures,' 

 a voids repeating in any sutra, the words which can be supplied from a 

 preceding one. When the original order of the sutras is abandoned, as 

 in ths: present work, it becomes necessary to place before the student, in 

 the shape of a commentary, the words which Panini left him to gather 

 from the context." 



