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17: Pāṇ.(?):<br />
after: bho,bhago,adho: -y- + V / vC [*bho-y-atra ]<br />
[*devā-y-iha]<br />
-a/ā -y- + V / vC [*ka-y-āste]<br />
[**brāhmaṇā-y-dadāti]<br />
18 Śākaṭāyana: The inserted -y-/-v- has less articulation (laghuprayatna),<br />
apparently: i , u .<br />
bho,bhago,adho: -v- + V / vC [*bho- u -atra]<br />
-a/ā -y- + V / vC [*ka- i -āste]<br />
19 Śākalya: Elision of -y-, -v-.<br />
bho,bhago,adho -0- + V / vC [bho atra]<br />
-a/ā -0- + V / vC [*asā āditya]<br />
[*ka āste]<br />
20 Gārgya: Elision of -v- after -o.<br />
bho,bhago,adho -0- + V / vC [*bho atra]<br />
-a/ā -y- + V / vC [*ka-y-āste]<br />
21: elision also before the particle u<br />
22: according to all (authorities), elision before a consonant<br />
The last rule apparently negates the form marked above with a double star<br />
and thus forms: [brāhmaṇā dadāti]. The general rule (of Pāṇini ?), i.e.<br />
insertion of -y-, however, has not been followed even in the text of Pān.'s<br />
grammar. The reason is that Pāṇ. teaches the usual, class. form of Abhinihita<br />
Sandhi (-e/o '- ), at 6.1.109 sqq.; this rule applies to Saṃhitā texts (6.1.72). 237<br />
The rules in 8.3.17 sqq. therefore seem to have been entered only to record<br />
the variant pronunciation of some teachers.<br />
It is interesting to note that all of the authorities quoted here are either<br />
Eastern or Central. Gārgya (cf. Gārgī at BAU) is a name the origin of which<br />
is to be searched with more probability in the Centre than in the East (cf.<br />
author, Fs. W.Rau: The case of the shattered head). Śākalya is, by the time<br />
237 See P. Thieme, Pāṇ. and the Veda p. 47 sqq.<br />
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