In -A New Course in Reading Pali_, (pp. 4-5), Gair and
Karunatillake explain their system for showing the
alternate forms.

"In the paradigms below, and in others that follow,
forms separated by / are alternants. Forms in
parentheses ( ) are alternate forms which are less
common, or generally found in later or commentarial
texts rather than in canonical texts."

In the case of the masculine a-stem ablatives, they
give:
-aa (-asmaa, -amhaa), which I interpret to meat that
the latter two are not common to the canonical texts.

Henry

--- zeb1001 <zeb1001@...> wrote:

> For the declensions for Ablative for mas.sing. words
> ending in A, is
> there any reason one would use one declension over
> the other, ie aa
> instead of asmaa or amhaa, or are they completely
> interchangable?
> Every time I'm tring to translate from english to
> Pali I just take a
> guess on which of the 3 to use, seems every time I
> check the answers
> it is one of the other two.
> Thanks
> Zeb
>
>
>
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