TITUS
Black Yajur-Veda: Taittiriya-Pratisakhya
Part No. 2
Paragraph: 2
Verse: 1
atʰa
śabdotpattiḥ
//
Now
for
the
origin
of
sound
.
Verse: 2
vāyuśarīrasamīraṇātkaṇṭhorasoḥ
saṃdʰāne
//
By
the
setting
in
motion
of
air
by
the
body
,
at
the
junction
of
throat
and
breast
.
Verse: 3
tasya
prātiśrutkāni
bʰavantyuraḥ
kaṇṭhaḥ
śiro
mukʰaṃ
nāsike
iti
//
The
parts
which
give
it
audible
quality
are
breast
,
throat
,
head
,
mouth
,
and
nostrils
.
Verse: 4
saṃvr̥te
kaṇṭhe
nādaḥ
kriyate
//
When
the
throat
is
closed
,
tone
is
produced
.
Verse: 5
vivr̥te
śvāsaḥ
//
When
it
is
opened
,
breath
is
produced
.
Verse: 6
madʰye
hakāraḥ
//
When
in
an
intermediate
condition
,
the
h-sound
is
produced
.
Verse: 7
tā
varṇaprakr̥tayaḥ
//
Those
are
the
materials
of
alphabetic
sounds
.
Verse: 8
nādo
'nupradanam̐
svaragʰoṣavatsu
//
In
vowels
and
sonant
consonants
,
the
emission
is
sound
.
Verse: 9
hakāro
hacaturtʰeṣu
//
In
h
and
in
sonant
aspirate
mutes
,
it
is
h-sound
.
Verse: 10
agʰoṣeṣu
śvāsaḥ
//
In
surd
consonants
,
it
is
breath
.
Verse: 11
bʰūyānpratʰamebʰyo
'nyeṣu
//
And
more
of
it
in
the
other
surd
letters
than
in
the
simple
surd
mutes
.
Verse: 12
avarṇe
nātyupasam̐hr̥tamoṣṭhahanu
nātivyastam
//
In
forming
the
a-vowels
,
the
lips
and
jaws
must
not
be
too
nealy
approximated
,
nor
too
widely
separated
.
Verse: 13
okāre
ca
//
Also
in
uttering
o
.
Verse: 14
oṣṭhau
tūpasam̐hr̥tatarau
//
But
the
lips
are
more
nearly
approximated
.
Verse: 15
īṣatprakr̥ṣṭāvekāre
//
In
utterin
e
,
they
are
slightly
protracted
.
Verse: 16
upasam̐hr̥tatare
hanū
//
The
jaws
more
nealy
approached
.
Verse: 17
jihvāmadʰyāntābʰyāṃ
cottarāñjambʰyāntsparśayati
//
And
one
touches
the
borders
of
the
upper
back
jaws
with
the
edges
of
the
middle
of
the
tongue
.
Verse: 18
upasam̐hr̥tatare
ca
jihvāgramr̥kārarkāralkāreṣu
barsveṣūpasam̐harati
//
The
jaws
,
also
,
are
more
closely
approximated
,
and
the
tip
of
the
tongue
is
brought
into
close
proximity
to
the
upper
back
gums
,
in
r̥
,
r̥̄
,
and
ḷ
.
Verse: 19
ekeṣāmanusvārasvarabʰaktyośca
//
As
also
,
according
to
some
,
in
anusvāra
and
svarabhakti
.
Verse: 20
anādeśe
praṇyastā
jihvā
//
In
the
absence
of
special
direction
,
the
tongue
is
thrust
down
forward
.
Verse: 21
akāravadoṣṭhau
//
The
lips
are
as
in
the
utterance
of
a
.
Verse: 22
tālau
jihvāmadʰyamivarṇe
//
In
the
i-vowels
,
the
middle
of
the
tongue
is
to
be
approximated
to
the
palate
.
Verse: 23
ekāre
ca
//
Also
in
e
.
Verse: 24
oṣṭhopasam̐hāra
uvarṇe
//
In
the
u-vowels
,
there
is
approximation
of
the
lips
.
Verse: 25
ekāntarastu
sarvatra
prakr̥tāt
//
But
,
in
all
cases
,
with
an
interval
of
one
from
the
preceding
.
Verse: 26
akārārdʰamaikāraukārayorādiḥ
//
The
beginning
of
ai
and
au
is
half
an
a
.
Verse: 27
saṃvr̥takaraṇataramekeṣām
//
Which
,
in
the
opinion
of
some
,
is
uttered
with
the
organs
more
closed
.
Verse: 28
ikāro
'dʰyardʰaḥ
pūrvasya
śeṣaḥ
//
Of
the
former
,
the
rest
is
one
and
a
half
times
i
.
Verse: 29
ukārastūttarasya
//
But
,
of
the
latter
,
u
.
Verse: 30
anusvārottamā
anunāsikāḥ
//
anusvāra
and
the
last
mutes
are
nasal
.
Verse: 31
svarāṇāṃ
yatropasam̐hārastatstʰānam
//
In
the
case
of
the
vowels
,
that
is
their
place
of
production
,
to
which
approximation
is
made
.
Verse: 32
yadupasam̐harati
tatkaraṇam
//
That
is
producing
organ
,
which
makes
the
approsximation
.
Verse: 33
anyeṣāṃ
tu
yatra
sparśanaṃ
tatstʰānam
//
But
in
the
case
of
the
other
letters
,
that
is
place
of
production
,
where
contact
is
made
.
Verse: 34
yena
sparśayati
tatkaraṇam
//
That
is
producing
organ
,
whereby
one
makes
the
contact
.
Verse: 35
hanūmūle
jihvāmūlena
kavarge
sparśayati
//
In
the
k-series
,
one
makes
contact
with
the
root
of
the
tongue
at
the
root
of
the
jaws
.
Verse: 36
tālau
jihvāmadʰyena
cavarge
//
In
the
c-series
,
with
the
middle
of
the
tongue
,
upon
the
palate
.
Verse: 37
jihvāgreṇa
prativeṣṭya
mūrdʰani
ṭavarge
//
In
the
ṭ-series
,
with
the
tip
to
the
tongue
,
rolled
back
,
in
the
head
.
Verse: 38
jihvāgreṇa
tavarge
dantamūleṣu
//
In
the
t-series
,
with
te
tip
of
the
tongue
,
at
the
roots
of
the
teeth
.
Verse: 39
oṣṭhābʰyāṃ
pavarge
//
In
the
p-series
,
with
the
two
lips
.
Verse: 40
tālau
jihvāmadʰyāntābʰyāṃ
yakāre
//
In
y
,
with
the
two
edges
of
the
middle
of
the
tongue
,
upon
the
palate
.
Verse: 41
repʰe
jihvāgramadʰyena
pratyagdantamūlebʰyaḥ
//
In
r
,
with
the
middle
of
the
tip
of
the
tongue
,
back
of
the
roots
of
the
teeth
.
Verse: 42
dantamūleṣu
ca
lakāre
//
Also
in
l
,
at
the
roots
of
the
teeth
.
Verse: 43
oṣṭhāntābʰyāṃ
dantairvakāre
//
In
v
,
with
the
edges
of
the
lips
,
along
with
the
teeth
.
Verse: 44
sparśastʰāneṣūṣmāṇa
ānupūrvyeṇa
//
The
spirants
,
in
their
order
,
are
produced
in
the
places
of
the
mutes
.
Verse: 45
karaṇamadʰyaṃ
tu
vivr̥tam
//
But
the
middle
of
the
producing
organ
is
unclosed
.
Verse: 46
kaṇṭhastʰānau
hakāravisarjanīyau
//
The
throat
is
place
of
production
of
h
and
visarjanīya
.
Verse: 47
udayasvarādisastʰāno
hakāraṃ
ekeṣām
//
In
the
opinion
of
some
authorities
,
h
has
the
same
position
as
the
begiining
of
the
following
vowel
.
Verse: 48
pūrvāntasastʰāno
visarjanīyaḥ
//
visarjanīya
has
the
same
position
as
the
end
of
the
preceding
vowel
.
Verse: 49
nāsikyā
nāsikāstʰānāḥ
//
The
nose-sounds
have
the
nose
as
their
place
of
production
.
Verse: 50
mukʰanāsikyā
vā
//
Or
they
are
produced
by
the
mouth
and
nose
.
Verse: 51
vargavaccaiṣu
//
And
,
in
them
,
the
organ
of
production
is
as
in
the
series
of
mutes
.
Verse: 52
nāsikāvivaraṇādānunāsikyaṃnāsikāvivaraṇādānunāsikyam
//
Nasal
quality
is
given
by
the
unclosing
of
the
nose
.
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TITUS
edition of
Black Yajur-Veda: Taittiriya-Pratisakhya
.
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