if 6 



Bare thapetwa sesa kadayo higgaMtahta byanjana. 

 The rest are consonants. 



Except the vowels the remainder from ka to niggahita are 

 consonants. 



Wagga pancha panchaso nianta. 



Byanjananan kadayo makaranta pancha panchaso akkhara- 

 wanto wagga. 



Classes of five each as far as ma. 



The consonants from ka to ma, inclusive, are divided ini# 

 glasses of five each.* 



Wagganan pathania dfttiya 

 sochaghosa. Lantanne ghosa. f 



The first and second letters of eac'h class and sa are surds. 

 The rest up to la are sonants. 



Ghosaghosa sannacha "para J samahnapayoge" 'ti sangahita. 



These terms ghosa aghosa have been borrowed from the usage' 

 of foreign grammarians. 



Ewan linga sabbanama pada upasagga hipata faddhita akhyata 

 kammappawachaniyadi sanna eha. 



Thus also have been borrowed Lihga, Sabbanama, Pada/ 

 Upasagga, Nipata,' Tadhita, A'khyata, Kammapawachaniya &c- 



An iti niggahitan. 



An iti akarato paran yo bindu s try ate" tan niggahitan 



* For facility of reference these five classes are here given; 

 ka fell a ga gHa ria 

 cha chha ia jha fia 

 ta th a da dha na 

 ta tha da dha na 

 pa pha ba bha ma 

 'f Vide Laghu Kaumudi, page 8 ; and Wilson's Sanskrit Grata mar, 

 page 7. 



% Vide Alwis' Introduction, page XXV. " Para sarnanna paj^oge; 

 (Vutti) ya cha pana sakkata gandhesu ; sarnanna ghosa' ti va aghosa' ti 

 va ta payoge sati ettha' pi yujjante. In composition other's appelations; 

 (Vutti) such [grammatical] terms as are called ghosa, (sonants) or 

 aghosa (surds) in Sanskrit (Gandhas) compositions are here adopted as 

 fefcigency may require." 



