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Kaccāyana-Byākaraṇaṃ · chapter 2 of 8

§149

Na aṃmhi

When ‘aṃ’ follows, no [change].

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149. 248. Na aṃmhi (327)

[Na + aṃmhi = 2 words]

Sabbesaṃ tumha-amhasaddānaṃ savibhattīnaṃ yadā padasmā paresaṃ te-me-ādesā na honti aṃmhi vibhattimhi.

Passeyya taṃ vassasataṃ arogaṃ (Khu. vi, 14); so maṃ bravīti.

When ‘aṃ’ follows, no [change].
When the inflection ‘aṃ’ follows, the whole words “tumha” and “amha”, when they come after a word, together with the inflections, are not substituted by “te” and “me”.
Examples
  1. Taṃ = tumha + aṃ (here “tumha” together with the inflection ‘aṃ’ is not substituted by “te”, but by “taṃ” (§143)).
  2. Maṃ = amha + aṃ (here “amha” together with the inflection ‘aṃ’ is not substituted by “me”, but by “maṃ” (§143)).

“Passeyya taṃ vassasataṃ arogaṃ” (may you see him in health for a hundred years).

“So maṃ bravīti” (he speaks to me).

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Pāḷi text and English translation by Bhikkhu Nandisena; edition, apparatus and glossary by the Instituto de Estudios Buddhistas Hispano (IEBH). This material may be reproduced for personal use and distributed free of charge. Copyright © 2026 IEBH. Published under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21948010.