Kaccāyana-Byākaraṇaṃ · chapter 1 of 8
Rassaṃ
Short.
- Kaccāyana 26
- Rūpasiddhi 38
- Saddanīti 65, 179
- Sandhi-Kappa · Tatiya-Kaṇḍa
Text and translation
Read in the chapter →26. 38. Rassaṃ (65, 179)
Sarā kho byañjane pare kvaci (sometimes) rassaṃ papponti.
Bhovādi nāma so hoti (Khu. i, 71), yathā bhāvi guṇena so.
Kvacī ti kasmā? Sammā samādhi (Vin. iii, 14), sāvittī chandaso mukhaṃ, upanīyati jīvitam appam āyu (S. i, 2).
- bhovādī nāma
- bhovādi nāma (§26)
- bhāvī guṇena
- bhāvi guṇena (§26)
Why say “sometimes”? [To prevent the operation of this rule in the following examples] “Sammā samādhi”, “sāvittī chandaso mukhaṃ”, “upanīyati jīvitam appam āyu”.
“Sammā samādhi.” Here and in the following counter-example, “sāvittī chandaso”, the final vowels do not become short.
“Upanīyati.” Here the ‘ī’ of “upanīyati” does not become short.
Without the footnotes: they are on the chapter card.
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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.