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‼️ Important - Read the important Instructions below

✨ This is a phonetic rule of the Saṁskṛta language (part of Saṁskṛta śikṣā / phonetics), which means it applies only while PRONOUNCING the word — not while writing✍🏻.

🔖 So in writing, ha-kāra (ह) comes first, and the anunāsika (nasal consonant – the 5th letter of the varga / pañcama varṇa) is written below/with ha-kāra.
But in pronunciation, the anunāsika comes first, and only then the sound of ha-kāra is released🙌🏻.

📍The source for this rule is the 16th śloka of Maharṣi Pāṇini’s Śikṣā-śāstra (Pāṇinīya-śikṣā)🕉️🙏🏻

See, ha-kāra is originally a kaṇṭhya letter (कण्ठ्य-वर्ण) – its sound naturally rises from the throat.
But when this phonetic rule is applied with the nasal (pañcama / anunāsika), the same ha-kāra has to come from the chest (urasya – उरस्य), which makes it deeper & more resonant.

Your observation & Anubhava (experience) itself is the only tool with which you can know this कण्ठस्य - उरस्य difference🤗. So go ahead and give it a try (practice it🥰).

Hope that helps💐 If you have any questions, let me know in the comments🤗

Also can you give one example word where this rule applies?🤔(apart from ब्रह्म - brahma & जाह्नवी - jāhnavī!)🪷
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