Excerpt from Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1871, Vol. 9 That is to say, as the commentary explains, of these simple vowels, two and two Short, two and two long, or a long and a short, are called similar. The meaning seems rather to be that, of the three triplets which make up the category of simple vowels, the first two in each triplet, the short and the long, will be desig mated as Similar' - to the exclusion, namely, of the pluta or pro tracted vowels. The term is used but once in the treatise (namely in x. 2, the rule last above quoted), as applied to vowels, and nothing Is practically gained by denying its inclusion of the pro tracted vowels, since these are specially protected from coalescence by the rule x. 24. The r-vowels are here again shut out, as in the preceding rule; and, in fact, no case occurs in the Vedic text in which two of them are fused into one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.