ब्यञ्जन

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ब्यञ्जन n

  1. Devanagari script form of byañjana (mark; letter)
    • c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar]‎[1], page 18; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:
      सरम्‌हा परस्स ब्यञ्जनस्स द्वेभावो होति ठाने ।
      saram‌hā parassa byañjanassa dvebhāvo hoti ṭhāne.
      There is doubling of a consonant after a vowel when appropriate.

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