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