tato ’ksara-samamnayam

 asrjad bhagavan ajah

antasthosma-svara-sparsa-

 hrasva-dirghadi-laksanam

 

Translation: 

 

From that omkara Lord Brahma created all the sounds of the alphabet — the vowels, consonants, semivowels, sibilants and others — distinguished by such features as long and short measure.