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§28

Para dvebhāvo ṭhāne

Doubling of the following in the appropriate place.

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28. 40. Para dvebhāvo ṭhāne (67)

[Para + dve-bhāvo + ṭhāne = 3 words]

Saramhā parassa byañjanassa dvebhāvo (doubling) hoti ṭhāne (in the appropriate place).

Idha ppamādo, purisassa jantuno, pabbajjaṃ kittayissāmi (Khu. i, 340), cātuddasiṃ (A. i, 142), pañcaddasiṃ (A. i, 142), abhikkantataro cando.

Ṭhāne ti kasmā? Idha modati pecca modati (Khu. i, 15).

Doubling of the following in the appropriate place.
After a vowel, there is doubling of the following consonant, in the appropriate place.
Examples: “Idha ppamādo, purisassa jantuno”, “pabbajjaṃ kittayissāmi”, “cātuddasiṃ”, “pañcaddasiṃ”, “abhikkantataro cando”.
Examples [with formation sequence]
Idha ppamādo
Sequence
  1. idha pamādo
  2. idha ppamādo (§28)
  3. idhappamādo (§11)
  4. idha ppamādo (ME)
Pabbajjaṃ
Sequence
  1. pa bajjaṃ
  2. pa bbajjaṃ (§28)
  3. pabbajjaṃ (§11)
Cātuddasiṃ
Sequence
  1. cātu dasiṃ
  2. cātu ddasiṃ (§28)
  3. cātuddasiṃ (§11)
Pañcaddasiṃ
Sequence
  1. pañca dasiṃ
  2. pañca ddasiṃ (§28)
  3. pañcaddasiṃ (§11)
Abhikkantataro
Sequence
  1. abhi kantataro
  2. abhi kkantataro (§28)
  3. abhikkantataro (§11)

Why say “in the appropriate place”? [To prevent the operation of this rule in the following example] “Idha modati pecca modati”.

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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.