Ah, now I see the issue. [Please ignore my earlier mail on the version issue.]

As a rule, if a long vowel is followed by 2 consecutive consonants, it is shortened.

Ven K

At 01:50 AM 15-07-02, ¬¨â਩ «¥ªá¥¥¢¨ç ¢ å­¥­ª® (Dimitry A. Ivakhnenko) wrote:

>Dear Tzungkuen,
>
>t> I didnft know how to analyze the word gpat.jaanantih. If it is (pat.i-
>t> j~naa)pres.3.pl.p, shouldnft it be pat.ijaanaanti? Though I find a
>t> sentence in PTS DicitionaryFjaananti tam yakkhabhuutaa, I donft why
>t> it is so. Please help me. Thanks a lot.
>
>-anti is a regular form of pres.3.pl. of bases ending with -aa long.
>
>Please refer to the declension and conjugation tables available in the
>Files section of http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pali
>
>With metta,
> Dimitry