Star Wars , Panini's Grammar and the Throat.
In Ashtadyayi ...the great grammarian Panini explains the anatomical location of phonetics employed in Sanskrit.
Today we would get familiar with a Sutra from Panini's asthyadyayi that talks about the letters produced from the throat.
There is no need to study Panini's sutras right away but I just want to introduce the origins of any definition so that we understand the basis of grammar instead of just memorizing it without a knowing its roots.
For example most of us saw Star Wars,Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi..then we had the Prequel to it that started of with the Phantom Menace as the Episode 1.
So its like this here...Panini's sutras is the Episode 1.
Just observe the screen play..lets start!
अकुहविसर्जनीयाः कण्ठ्याः
akuhavisarjanIyAH kaNThyAH
What does this mean?
Ok....it means that the location for the utterance of the letters
अ आ , क=कवर्ग(क ख ग घ ङ) ,ह and विसर्ग are from the throat hence called कण्ठ्य kaNThya(Throat or sometimes even called Guttural)
Stay tuned for the Return of the तालव्य tAlavya (palatal).
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