dhvanīnāṃ bhinnadeśatvāchrutis tatrānurudyate // apūritāntarālatvād vicchedaścāvasīyate / teṣāṃ cālpakadeśatvācchabde 'pyavibhutāmatiḥ //
Because the articulations appear in different places, [one's] hearing is restricted to those places; and because the intervening spaces [between the articulations] are not filled up, there is cognition of a break [in continuity]; and because they [the articulations] occupy small spaces, there is also cognition of non-pervasiveness in sound.