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Kaccāyana-Byākaraṇaṃ · chapter 2 of 8

§98

Mātulādīnam ānattam īkāre

When ‘ī’ follows, ‘āna’ of “mātula”, etc.

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98. 189. Mātulādīnam ānattam īkāre (261)

[Mātulādīnaṃ + ānattaṃ + īkāre = 3 words]

Mātula icc evam ādīnaṃ anto ānattam āpajjate īkāre paccaye pare.

Mātulānī (Khu. i, 219), ayyakānī, varuṇānī.

Īkāre ti kimatthaṃ? Bhikkhunī, rājinī, jālinī, gahapatānī (Vin. i, 314).

Ānattaggahaṇena nadī icc etassa dīsaddassa jjo-jjā-ādesā honti saha vibhattiyā yo nā sa icc etesu. Najjo sandanti (S. ii, 178); najjā kataṃ taraṅgaṃ; najjā nerañjarāya tīre (Vin. iii, 1).

When ‘ī’ follows, ‘āna’ of “mātula”, etc.
When the suffix ‘ī’ follows, the end vowel of “mātula”, etc., becomes ‘āna’.
Examples
  1. Mātulānī = mātula + ī (‘a’ of “mātula” becomes ‘āna’ (§98); ‘a’ is elided (§83)).
  2. The formation of the rest of the examples is similar to the previous one.

What is the purpose of saying “when ‘ī’ follows”? [This sutta does not apply when ‘ī’ does not follow, such as in] bhikkhunī, rājinī, jālinī, gahapatānī.

By taking “ānatta”, when ‘yo’, ‘nā’ and ‘sa’ follow, ‘dī’ of “nadī” is substituted by ‘jjo’ and ‘jjā’ together with the inflections.

Example
  1. Najjo = nadī + yo (‘dī’ together with the inflection ‘yo’ is substituted by ‘jjo’ (§98)).

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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.