Kalanirnaya: A Text on Ancient Indian Phonetics with Dipika (commentary) of Muktisvaracarya

Contents: Foreword. Preface. Prolegomena. Introduction. 1. The general Siksa or the Paniniya Siksa. 2. The Siksas of the Rgveda. 3. The Siksas of the White (sukla) Yajurveda. 4. The Siksas of the Black (krsna) Yajurveda. 5.The Siksas of the Samaveda. 6. The Siksa of the Atharvaveda. The Phonetic observation: 1. Syllable and their rules: Syllabication of sound groups. 2. Syllabication of the yamas. 2. Syllabication of the yamas. 3. Syllabication of the Anusvara. 4. Syllabication of svarabhakti. 5. Doubling. 6. Abhinidhana (incomplete articulation). Critical apparatus. The text of the Kalanirnaya with Dipika. Transliteration and English translation of the text. Observations. Content analysis of the text. Bibliography and references. Index.

The Kalanirnaya is a Siksa text written around the 16th-17th century. This present work Kalanirnaya with the Dipika (commentary) of Muktisvaracarya is a prose form of the mid-17th century or a little earlier.

Kalanirnayadipika deals with only mora of Sanskrit. It emphasizes on the difference in the utterance of vowels, consonants and also in pause. It highlights the scientific basis of the structure of the Sanskrit language.

Kalanirnaya text and Dipika (commentary) both are critically edited here. The handy introduction may be helpful to get a brief idea about Sanskrit Phonetics. Translation of the text has also been provided. It would be a great help for further study to those scholars who are interested in the field of Siksa.