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Thus in the line " akaramhasate" &c, according to this rule for 

 the long e inherent in se the short a is substituted : thus 

 akaramhasa te kichchan. 



Akkhara niyamo chhandan— garu lahu niyamo bhawe wutti 

 digho sanyogadi*-- pubbo rasso cha garu lahu turasso-yatha a 

 assa an a 



Prosody is the calculation of syllables. 



The proper position of long and short syllables forms the 

 prosodial line. Long are those which are originally long, and 

 those before combined consonants or niggalnta : short are short, 

 thus a ass i an a.f 



Ewama' finapi winneyya sanhita tantiya hita.J 

 Sanhita 'ticha wannanan sannidha 'byawadhanato. 

 Thus are to be known other sandhis fit for Pali text. What 

 is sandhi ? The combination of letters when there is>o stop. 

 Womissaka Sandhi. 

 So much for mixed Sandhi, 



Lionel F. Lee..§ 



December,. 1870. 



* Vide Chap. I. " Anantara byanjana sanyogo." 



f A is the original long : the first a in assa is long before the combin- 

 ed consonants : the vowel in an is short before the niggahita : the letter 

 a is originally short. — Vide Chap. I. 



X Vide Alwis's Introduction, page V. " The Pali has also received 

 the designation of Tanti, ' the string of a lute,' (Abhidhanapadipika, 

 p. 16,) its Sanskrit cognate being tanti — from its application to the 

 Buddhist doctrines, Tanti has become a name for the sacred language 

 itself of the Buddhists, viz., the Magadhi or Pali." 



§ I must ask th'e indulgence of my readers in respect of the diacritical 

 markings of the letters. Notwithstanding the care I have exercised in 

 the revision of numerous proofs, I have no doubt that errors will be 

 found in the text. 



T. 



