Ko khe ca

And [there is] ‘ka’ when ‘kha’ follows.

Kaccāyana 473
Rūpasiddhi 529
Saddanīti 953
Ākhyāta-Kappa · Tatiya-Kaṇḍa

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473. 529. Ko khe ca (953)

[Ko + khe + ca = 3 words]

Byañjanantassa dhātussa ko hoti khapaccaye pare.

Titikkhati (Khu. i, 59), bubhukkhati.

And [there is] ‘ka’ when ‘kha’ follows.

There is ‘ka’ of the end consonant of the root when the suffix ‘kha’ follows.

Examples

Titikkhati ([he] endures), bubhukkhati ([he] wishes to eat).

Note: In “titikkhati”, the root is ‘tija’. After the elision of the end vowel of the root and placing the suffix ‘kha’, the end consonant of the root, ‘j’, is changed to ‘k’.

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