Kvaci o byañjane

Sometimes, when a consonant follows, ‘o’.

Kaccāyana 36
Rūpasiddhi 47
Saddanīti 130
Sandhi-Kappa · Catuttha-Kaṇḍa

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36. 47. Kvaci o byañjane (130)

[Kvaci + o + byañjane = 3 words]

Byañjane pare kvaci (sometimes) okārāgamo hoti.

Atippago kho tāva Sāvatthiyaṃ piṇḍāya carituṃ (A. iii, 424). Parosahassaṃ (S. i, 194).

Kvacī ti kasmā? Etha passath’ imaṃ lokaṃ (Khu. i, 39), andhībhūto ayaṃ loko (Khu. i, 39).

Sometimes, when a consonant follows, ‘o’.

When a consonant follows, sometimes there is the insertion of the letter ‘o’.

Examples: “Atippago kho tāva Sāvatthiyaṃ piṇḍāya carituṃ”, “parosahassaṃ”.

Examples [with formation sequence]

Atippago kho: atippa kho; atippa g kho (by “ca” of §35); atippa go kho (§36); atippagokho (§11); atippago kho (ME).

Parosahassaṃ: para sahassaṃ; par a sahassaṃ (§10); par sahassaṃ (§12); par o sahassaṃ (§36); parosahassaṃ (§11).

Why say “sometimes”? [To prevent the operation of this rule in the following examples] “Etha passath’ imaṃ lokaṃ”, “andhībhūto ayaṃ loko”.

Counter-examples

Etha passath’ imaṃ lokaṃ.

Andhībhūto ayaṃ.

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Where it is cited

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