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# Karnatakabhashabhushana 1.4

English (machine translation) 1.4

- **Language:** English

### [1.4.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vernacular.kannada.sastra.bhasabhusana~en-mt.1.4.1)

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

### [1.4.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vernacular.kannada.sastra.bhasabhusana~en-mt.1.4.2)

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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vernacular.kannada.sastra.bhasabhusana~en-mt.1.4.3)

\*a\*

### [1.4.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vernacular.kannada.sastra.bhasabhusana~en-mt.1.4.4)

\*ā\*

### [1.4.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vernacular.kannada.sastra.bhasabhusana~en-mt.1.4.5)

\*ā3\*

### [1.4.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vernacular.kannada.sastra.bhasabhusana~en-mt.1.4.6)

\*i\*

### [1.4.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vernacular.kannada.sastra.bhasabhusana~en-mt.1.4.7)

\*ī\*

### [1.4.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vernacular.kannada.sastra.bhasabhusana~en-mt.1.4.8)

\*ī3\*

### [1.4.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vernacular.kannada.sastra.bhasabhusana~en-mt.1.4.9)

and so forth.

### [1.4.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vernacular.kannada.sastra.bhasabhusana~en-mt.1.4.10)

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

## Linked texts (1)

- [Karṇāṭakabhāṣābhūṣaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vernacular.kannada.sastra.bhasabhusana.1.4.1) — Nāgavarma II, Sanskrit

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