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§48

Kvaci paṭi patissa

Sometimes ‘paṭi’ for ‘pati’.

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48. 43. Kvaci paṭi patissa (137)

[Kvaci + paṭi + patissa = 3 words]

Pati icc etassa sare vā byañjane vā pare kvaci (sometimes) paṭi-ādeso hoti.

Paṭaggi (Vin. iv, 279) dātabbo, paṭihaññati (Vin. iv, 292).

Kvacī ti kasmā? Paccantimesu janapadesu (Vin. iii, 287), patilīyati (A. ii, 434), patirūpadesavāso ca (Khu. i, 4).

Sometimes ‘paṭi’ for ‘pati’.
When a consonant or a vowel follows, sometimes there is the substitution of ‘pati’ by ‘paṭi’.
Examples: “Paṭaggi dātabbo”, “paṭihaññati”.

Paṭaggi: pati aggi; pat i aggi (§10); pat aggi (§12); paṭ aggi (§48); paṭaggi (§11).

Paṭihaññati: pati haññati; paṭi haññati (§48); paṭihaññati (§11).

Why say “sometimes”? [To prevent the operation of this rule in the following examples] “Paccantimesu janapadesu”, “patilīyati”, “patirūpadesavāso ca”.

Paccantimesu: pati antimesu; pa ti antimesu (§10); pa c antimesu (§19); pa cc antimesu (§28); paccantimesu (§11).

Patilīyati. Here and in the following example there is no substitution.

Patirūpadesavāso.

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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.