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signification ; therefore when there has been a letter or a stop 

 inserted sandhi will not occur i [for example] man ahasi : 

 mnd in the Gatha [commencing] Pamada Manuyunjanti' &c. ; , 

 [for example] jana appamadan.* 

 Ewan sabba sandhisu. 

 This holds good in all Sandhi. 



Anantaran parassa sarassa lopan wakkhati tasamanena 

 pnbbassa lopo nayati tenewa sattami nidditthassa paratapi 

 gamyate. 



Hereafter [Kachchayana] speaks of the elision of the second 

 vowel, therefore from that the elison of the first vowel is known, 

 therefore too the sense [of the word] para is known [in the word] 

 in the seventh case.f 

 Saretyadhikaro. 

 [In the combination of vowels] " Sare" is the regulating 

 ^expression"!. 



Pana ime pana imetiha 

 Sara lopan itwewa. 

 Wa paro asarupa. 

 Asamanarupa saramha paro sarowa lupyate : paname panime. 

 Take as an example pana ime. 

 Understand " sara lopan" § 



* The signification of opasilesika is close conjunction. The rule sig- 

 nifies, therefore, that, where close conjunction does not take place on 

 account of the insertion of a letter or of a prosodial stop, there is an 

 exception to the rule preceding. Thus the niggahita in man prevents 

 man ahasi becoming m ahasi. There is a prosodial stop between jana 

 ;and appamadan : so that sandhi doe's not occur. The Gatha referred to is 

 a part of the Dhammapada. 



f This is an answer to the supposed enquiry, " why should pare be 

 •understood in the sutra " sara sare lopan" ? 



X That is ; throughout the chapter on vowel combination it must be 

 understood that the elision, &c, takes place on account of a vowel in 

 the second place. 



For the term " regulating expression" vide Laghu Kaumudi, page 387, 

 No. 1020. — Compare Alwis' Introduction, page 5, No. 8 and Note. 

 § Sara lopa#. " The vowels [must become] elided." 



