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§17

Yam edantass’ ādeso

‘Y’ [is] the substitution of the end ‘e’.

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17. 19. Yam edantass’ ādeso (43)

[Yaṃ + e-antassa + ādeso = 3 words]

Ekārassa antabhūtassa sare pare kvaci (sometimes) yakārādeso hoti.

Adhigato kho my āyaṃ dhammo (Vin. iii, 5), ty āhaṃ evaṃ vadeyyaṃ (M. i, 16), ty āssa (A. i, 153) pahīnā honti.

Kvacī ti kasmā? ne ’nāgatā, iti n’ ettha.

‘Y’ [is] the substitution of the end ‘e’.
When a vowel follows, the letter ‘e’, which stands at the end, sometimes is substituted by ‘y’.
Examples: “Adhigato kho my āyaṃ dhammo”, “ty āhaṃ evaṃ vadeyyaṃ”, “ty āssa pahīnā honti”.
Examples [with formation sequence]
My āyaṃ
Sequence
  1. me ayaṃ
  2. m e ayaṃ (§10)
  3. m y ayaṃ (§17)
  4. m y āyaṃ (§25)
  5. myāyaṃ (§11)
  6. my āyaṃ (ME)
Ty āhaṃ
Sequence
  1. te ahaṃ
  2. t e ahaṃ (§10)
  3. t y ahaṃ (§17)
  4. t y āhaṃ (§25)
  5. tyāhaṃ (§11)
  6. ty āhaṃ (ME)

Why say “sometimes” (kvaci)? [To prevent the operation of this rule in the following examples] “ne ’nāgatā”, “iti n’ ettha”.

Counter-examples
Ne ’nāgatā
Sequence
  1. ne anāgatā
  2. n e anāgatā (§10)
  3. n e nāgatā (§13)
  4. nenāgatā (§11)
  5. ne ’nāgatā (ME)
N’ ettha
Sequence
  1. ne ettha
  2. n e ettha (§10)
  3. n ettha (§12)
  4. nettha (§11)
  5. n’ ettha (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.