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Kaccāyana-Byākaraṇaṃ · chapter 6 of 8

§515

Te āv’-āyā kārite

Those [reach] ‘āva’ and ‘āya’ in the causative.

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515. 541. Te āv’-āyā kārite (1029)

[Te + āva-āyā + kārite = 3 words]

Te o e icc ete āva-āyādese pāpuṇanti kārite.

Lāveti, nāyeti.

Yogavibhāgena aññasmim pi ekārassa āyādeso hoti. Gāyati (JA. i, 418), gāyanti (Vin. ii, 351).

Those [reach] ‘āva’ and ‘āya’ in the causative.
In the causative, those [letters] ‘o’ and ‘e’ reach ‘āva’ and ‘āya’.
Examples
  1. Lāveti ([he] causes to reap), nāyeti ([he] causes to lead).

By dividing the sutta, also in another case there is the substitution ‘āya’ of the letter ‘e’:

  1. Gāyati ([he] sings), gāyanti ([they] sing).

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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.