6.1.220
अन्तोऽवत्याः
Operational rule vidhi
The Names ending in अवति have the acute accent on the last syllable.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Substitute / term अन्तः prathamā · ekavacanaTarget अवत्याः ṣaṣṭhī · ekavacana
- Substitute / term Prathamā (1st case): in operational rules, the substitute or the thing introduced; in definitions, the term or its referent.
- Target Ṣaṣṭhī (6th case): names what gets replaced, "in place of X" (1.1.49 षष्ठी स्थानेयोगा).
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Full reading
अन्तः अवत्याः
Pāṇini leaves out words that carry over from earlier sūtras. Expand to see the rule as a reader actually understands it.
अवत्याः → अन्तः
Replace avatyāḥ with antaḥ. Inherited words (anuvṛtti) may add further conditions.
Commentary
The Names ending in अवति have the acute accent on the last syllable.
Thus अजिरवती꣡, खदिरवती꣡, हंसवती꣡, कारण्डवती꣡ ॥ These words being formed by ङीप् would have been unaccented on the final 3.1.4. Why do we use अवती and not वती? Then the rule would apply to राजवती also, for this word is really that राजन्वती ending in अन्वती, the subsequent elision of न् is held to be non-valid for the purposes of the application of this rule 8.2.2. But the change of म into व (मत् = वत्) is considered asiddha for the purposes of this rule.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.