Karnatakabhashabhushana 1.4

English (machine translation) 1.4

Language: English

1.4.1

[3] Having one, two, or three morae, they are short, long, and protracted.

The employment of that word "they" (*tē*) is for the sake of individual instances. Among the individual instances of vowels beginning with *a*, those phonemes having one, two, or three morae are, respectively, short, long, and protracted.

1.4.3

*a*

1.4.4

*ā*

1.4.5

*ā3*

1.4.6

*i*

1.4.7

*ī*

1.4.8

*ī3*

1.4.9

and so forth.

1.4.10

From the standpoint of generality, the count also is not contradicted.

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Karṇāṭakabhāṣābhūṣaṇa — Nāgavarma II, Sanskrit