Jaiminiyanyayamala 42.2.17-2
English (machine translation) 42.2.17-2
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42.2.17-2
He sets forth the tenth topical section: / Musical interjections are not transferred, because they are non-chant, like the phonemes; / Or they are transferred, like accents and the rest, through their service to the duration of the chant.
42.2.17-2.p1
In the base verse of the Vāmadevya-sāman, between the two halves, an interjection composed of two o-sounds, the word *ho*, and the word *hāyī* is recited thus: ‘*o o ho hāyī*’. This musical interjection is not transferred to the two subsequent verses. Why? Because it is non-chant. In ‘whatever [he sings] on the base verse, that he sings on the two subsequent verses’, chant alone is transferred. In this regard, just as the phonemes of the first verse are not transferred, so also the musical interjections [are not]. Such being the proposal—