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Black Yajur-Veda: Taittiriya-Pratisakhya
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Verse: 1    śabdaḥ prakr̥tiḥ sarvavarṇānām //
   Tone is the material of all articulate sounds.

Verse: 2    tasya rūpānyatve varṇānyatvam //
   In the difference of form of the former consists the difference of the latter.

Verse: 3    tatra śabdadravyāṇyudāhariṣyāmaḥ //
   Here we will instance the offices of terms.

Verse: 4    varṇakārau nirdeśakau //
   varuṇa and kāra are indicatory.

Verse: 5    cāpītyanvādeśakau //
   ca and api are implicative.

Verse: 6    tvatʰaiveti vinivartakādʰikārakāvadʰārakāḥ //
   tu, atha, and eva are exceptional, introductory, and restrictive, respectively.

Verse: 7    veti vaibʰāṣikaḥ //
   vā is alternative.

Verse: 8    neti pratiṣedʰakaḥ //
   na is prohibitive.

Verse: 9    āyāmo dāruṇyamaṇunā kʰasyetyuccaiḥkarāṇi śabdasya //
   Tension, hardness, smallness of aperture, are producers of high tone.

Verse: 10    anvavasargo mārdavamurutā kʰasyeti nīcaiḥkarāṇi //
   Relaxation, softness, wideness of aperture, are producers of low tone.

Verse: 11    mandramadʰyamatārāṇi stʰānāni bʰavanti //
   Soft, middle, and loud are the three qualities.

Verse: 12    tatraikavim̐śatiryamāḥ //
   In them are twenty-one tones.

Verse: 13    r̥gvirāmaḥ padavirāmo vivr̥ttivirāmaḥ samānapadavivr̥ttivirāmastrimātro dvimātra ekamātro 'rdʰamātra ityānuūrvyeṇa //
   The verse-pause, pada-pause, pause for hiatus, and pause for hiatus in the interior of a word, are respectively of three moras, two moras, one mora, anda a half-mora.

Verse: 14    yadyañjanāntaṃ yadu cāpi dīrgʰam̐ saṃyogapūrvaṃ ca tatʰānunāsikam // etāni sarvāṇi gurūṇi vidyāc cʰeṣāṇyato 'nyāni tato lagʰūni //
   A syllable that ends with a consonat, one that has a long vowel, one that preceedes a conjuction of consonants, one that is nasal --- all these are to be accounted heavy; the rest, other than these, are light.

Verse: 15    avyañjanāntaṃ yaddʰrasvamasaṃyogaparaṃ ca yat / ananusvārasaṃyuktametallagʰu niṣodʰatai tallagʰu nibodʰata //
   A syllable that does not end with a consonat, that has a short vowel, and that is not followed by a conjunction of consonants, and one that is not combined with anusvāra --- know that to be light.

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