<< I may not be understanding what the commentaries mean when they
give the word count for the sutta at Kc 408 as dvipadamida.m (Mmd). It
seems that 'pada' doesn't necessarily refer to single words per se but
phrases as well. This becomes even more evident at Kc 423 where the 12
suffixes of the present tense are listed along with the term
vattamaanaa. Mmd also says this sutta is dvipadamida.m. So the list of
12 suffixes has to be interpreted as a phrasal unit (one pada). >>
I will have to reconsider whether the phrase 'dve dve' is two separate
words or a compounded 'dvedve'. I just found out that one will likely
have to interpret the list of 12 vattamaanaa suffixes in Kc 423 as a
dvanda compound according to the Mmd comment (below) on Kc 55 which
lists the14 syaadi declensional suffixes: