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Kaccāyana-Byākaraṇaṃ · chapter 6 of 8

§491

Karassa kāsattam ajjatanimhi

When [the inflection] “ajjatanī” follows, [there is] ‘kāsa’ of “kara”.

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491. 523. Karassa kāsattam ajjatanimhi (983)

[Karassa + kāsattaṃ + ajjatanimhi = 3 words]

Kara icc etassa dhātussa sabbassa kāsattaṃ hoti vā ajjatanimhi vibhattimhi.

Akāsi (M. ii, 194), akāsuṃ. Akari, akaruṃ (D. ii, 204).

Kāsattam iti bhāvaniddesena aññatthā pi sāgamo hoti. Ahosi (VinA. i, 10), adāsi (VinA. i, 9).

When [the inflection] “ajjatanī” follows, [there is] ‘kāsa’ of “kara”.
Optionally, when the “ajjatanī” inflection follows, there is ‘kāsa’ of all the root “kara”.
Examples
  1. Akāsi, akari ([he] did); akāsuṃ, akaruṃ ([they] did).

By indicating the state with “kāsatta”, also in other cases there is insertion of ‘s’:

  1. Ahosi ([he] was), adāsi ([he] gave).

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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.