Kc 43

[Kaccāyanabyākaraṇaṃ, Sandhikappa, Pañcamakaṇḍa, Sutta 43]

43. 33. Pāssa c' anto rasso (54).

Pā icc' etassa ante sare pare kvaci gakārāgamo hoti, anto ca saro rasso
hoti.

At the end of ‘pā’, when a vowel follows, sometimes there is the insertion
of the letter ‘g’, and the end vowel becomes short.

Pag eva (Khu. v, 111) vutyassa.

Examples:
pageva: pā eva; pā g eva (43); pa g eva (43); pageva.

Kvacī ti kasmā? Pā eva (Vin. iv, 476) vutyassa.

Why say ‘sometimes’? To prevent the operation of this rule in the following:
Pā eva vutyassa.

-- translation by Ven. U Nandisena, 2004

-- posted (with some minor editing) by Jim Anderson, 6 November 2010
    (new moon, 4:52 GMT)