Bhante,

Is it possible to resolve the compound as

eka y anvaaya

However, this does not explains the lengthening in the first terminal vowel of eka.

Subham astu

Piya


Bhante Sujato wrote:

> Thanks Jim
>
> So it seems the com and Tika are right, and ekaayanvaaya.m is the
> authentic reading of the samyutta tradition.
>
> peace
>
> Bhante Sujato
>
> > I found that 'ekaayanvaaya.m' occurs in the Thai Budsir IV version
> of
> > the sutta and, furthermore, it occurs a total of 10 times in the
> same
> > Mahaavagga volume of the Sa.myuttanikaaya according to the search
> > results (not counting the possibility of more in the peyyala
> > sections). The PTS reading in the sutta also has 'ekaayano ayam'
> but
> > there is a footnote for a reading in a Burmese ms in Paris: -
> nvaayam.
> >
> > The .tiikaa comments on the sandhi:
> >
> > 367. Ekaayanvaayanti sandhivasena vutta.m o-kaarassa va-kaara.m
> > a-kaarassa diigha.m katvaa. Aya.m kira sa.myuttaabhilaapo, ...
> >
> > 'Aya.m kira sa.myuttaabhilaapo,' (?? this, it seems, is the
> Sa.myutta
> > wording) as if the commentator thought the sandhi-form unusual.
> >
> > Best wishes,
> > Jim
>
>
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