ill 



Before a letter of the same class to the fourth* arid second hard 

 and soft letters of the class the third and first letters of the 

 same class must be doubled, according to position in the proper 

 place. 



Thus ugghoso : and, shorteningf the vowel, akkhatan. 



Para sahassan atippa kho una. 

 " KwachiJ o byanjane" 'ti okaragamo, 



Parosahassan — gagamecha— atippagokho. 

 Take as examples para sahassan, atippa kho. According to 

 the rule " kwachi o byanjane" o is inserted. 



Thus parosahassan : and after insertion of g, atippa gokho. 



Awa naddhatyatra. 

 4i awasse" 'ti kwachi awassa o. 

 Onaddha— kwachiti kin-— awasussatu. 

 Take as an example awa naddha. 



According to the rule a awassa" sometimes o for awa. 

 Thus onaddha : why (i sometimes" ? [because of] awasussatu. 

 Byanjana sandhi 

 So much for combination of 

 Consonants. 



* I have found it impossible (without entirely abandoning the attempt 

 to translate the words) to translate this rule into plain English. Conso- 

 nants are divided into classes of five each (vide Chapter I. Note 3.) 

 These are subdivided into soft and hard letters. The first two letters 

 of each class are hard : the remainder soft. The signification of the rule 

 is, therefore, that in reduplication the first and second letters go together 

 and the third and fourth. Thus ; taking as an example the ka-class, 

 comprehending the letters ka kha ga gha iia ; ka and kha (the 

 first and second) go together ; and ga and gha ga cannot precede ka : 

 nor gha kha. 



f The a of the combination a + khatan becomes short when sandhi 

 occurs : thus akkhatan, not akkhatan. 



% Vide Kachchayana — " Byanjane pare kwachi okaragamo hoti." 



§ Vide Kachchayana. " Awaichche tassa byanjane pare kwachi 

 okaradeso hoti." When there is a consonant in the second place 6 is 

 sometimes substituted for awa. 



For force of awa in combination, vide Wilson's Sansk. Gr : page 98. 



