[Advaita-l] Pronunciation of brahma vahni jihvA and so on

[Raghav Kumar Dwivedula]

Siva Senani garu
Thank you for the information. I shall look it up. You mentioned a link in
your mail but it does not seem to have come through in your post.
Om
Raghav

On Wed 23 May, 2018, 3:32 PM Siva Senani Nori via Advaita-l, <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

>  Raghav Kumar garu
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> There has been an extensive discussion on another forum called BVP,
> including by yours truly, which may have some useful pointers. Here is the
> link: Google Groups
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> Regards
> N. Siva Senani
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>     On Wednesday, 23 May, 2018, 1:24:38 PM IST, Raghav Kumar Dwivedula via
> Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
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>  Namaste
> I have a doubt regarding the pronunciation of words having nasal and
> semi-vowels preceded by a hakAra as in the words brahma, vahni, jihvA etc.
>
> My understanding is that at least in vedic mantras, brahma is pronounced
> bramhA and vahni is pronounced vanhi. In other words the nasal ( na ma ) or
> semivowels (like va) precedes the ha-kAra.
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> Therefore it's wrong to say brah-ma and vah-ni and jih-vA . The right way
> is to say bram-ha, van-hi, and jiv-ha.
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> There is pANiNiya shikShA which says  हकारं पञ्चमयैर्युक्तमन्तःस्थाभिश्च
> संयुतम्  औरस्यं तं विजानीयात्कण्ठ्यमाहुरसंयुतम्  ।
> which i am told , explicitly states the rule. But there seems to be some
> ambiguity about the word aurasyaM in the above rule and how to apply it in
> our context.
>
> what exactly does it mean in this context?
>
> I request any member who has knowledge of this to kindly share their
> understanding.
>
> Om
> Raghav
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