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[[three mantras]]


== .1 ==
[[guhya mantra]], [[vidya mantra]] and [[dharani mantra]]
The peculiarity of the Tibetan mode of writing in distinctly marking the word-syllables, but not the words ([[Abbreviations|cf.]] [[4. Syllables|4]]) composed of two or more of these, sometimes renders is doubtful what is to be rgarded as one word.


== .2 ==
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There exist a great number of small monosyllables, which serve for denoting different shades of notions, grammatical relations etc., and are postponed to the word in question; but never alter its original shape, though their own initials are not seldom influenced by its final consonant ([[Abbreviations|cf.]] [[15. Declension.|15]]).
 
== .3 ==
Such monosyllables may conveniently be regarded as terminations, forming one word together with the preceeding nominal or verbal root.
 
== .4 ==
The accent is, in such cases, most naturally given to the root, or, in compounds, generally to the latter part of the composition, as: ''[[mig]]'' ,eye', ''[[mig gi]]'' ,of the eye'; ''[[lag]]'' ,hand', [[lag shubs]]'', ,hand covering, glove'.
 
== .5 ==
Equally natural is, in [[Abbreviations|WT.]], the quantity of the vowels: accentuated vowels, when closing the syllable, are comparatively long (though never so long as in the English words ''bee, stay'', or the [[Hindi]] [[character omitted]] etc.), otherwise short, as ''[[mi]]'' ,man', ''[[mi la]]'' ,to the man', but ''[[mar]]'' ,butter'. - In [[Abbreviations|CT]], however, even accentuated and closing vowels are uttered very shortly: ''mi, mi-la'' etc., and long ones occur there only in the case of [[5. Final Consonants|5]], [[4. Syllables#.5|4.5]] and [[8. Prefixed Letters#.2|8.2]], as ''[[las]]'' ''lae'' ,work'; ''[[chos]]'' ''choe'' ,religion'; ''[[mda']]'' ''da'' ,arrow'; ''[[gza']]'' ''za'' ,planet'; and in Lhasa especially: ''[[nags]]'' ''na'' ,forest'; ''[[legs pa]]'' ''le-pa'' ,good'; ''[[rigs]]'' ''ri'' ,class, sort'; ''[[logs]]'' ''lo'' ,side'; ''[[lugs]]'' ''lu'' ,manner'. - In [[Sanscrit]] words the long vowels are marked by an ''[[:Category:'a|'a]]'' beneath the consonant, as: ''[[n'a ma]]'' ([[character omitted]]) ,called', ''[[m'u la]]'' ([[character omitted]]) ,root' ([[Abbreviations|s.]] [[3. Vowels|3]]).
 
 
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three mantras

guhya mantra, vidya mantra and dharani mantra

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