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आद्यन्तवदेकस्मिन् ONPANINI 11021

A lone letter is its own end and its own beginning.

This is a /paribhASA.

According to it, saying that the word a अ "ends" in a अ makes perfect sense as far as grammar rules are concerned. And you may also say that "a" begins with a अ.

What is the necessity of this sUtra?

In ordinary language we say that the week ends in saturday, and that the last day of "tuesday, wednesday" is wednesday, but we cannot say that the last day of wednesday is wednesday, that makes no sense. So when some g grammar rules make us conclude that "we have replace the last letter of a अ with A आ", someone might object that this is nonsense because "a" has no last letter — either it does not have a LAST letter because it is itself a letter, or the a cannot be the last letter because it is already the first letter. And that therefore there should be no A आ replacement.

This rule dismisses those objections and assures us that the last letter of a अ is a अ, so we must do the replacing —

a- अॱ "this" + /bhyAm → **AbhyAm आभ्याम् "with these two", by supica