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14001 Down to
14002 In case of contradiction, higher number works first.
14003
14004
14005 before
14006 Before
14007
14008
14010 Short is light.
14011 Before cluster is heavy.
14012 Long .
^ 
headline, valid down to 22038 kaDArA.
"Just one term" means --
" The rules that are in this section don't give two different terms to the same thing. "
Example --
Rule hrasvaMlaghu below says that the
Next rule saMyogeguru says it's heavy, because it is before a cluster.
If these rules were anywhere else in the grammar, this
But because they are in this section, this
^ 
In other words --
" ceteris paribus, later rules are stronger than former rules".
Example 1.
When joining
So higher number wins and 73103 gets to work --
After this, 73102 can no longer work, because
Example 2. When joining
Rule 61008 liTidhA says "replace
Yet, rule 73086 puganta says "replace
So higher number 73086 puganta works first, and we get
After that, 61008 liTidhA can still work, so it does ---
Careful. This "later before earlier" rule works most of the time, but not always. When a former rule overrides a later rule, commentaries warn us with the word pUrvavipratiSedha. That translates into "here lower number wins" or "exception in advance to".
Rishi Rajpopat's dissertation supports the view that grammatical tradition misinterpreted the word
Example of Rishi Rajpopat's interpretation "right hand side rule wins" --
In
The left side rule 73103 bahuvacanejhalyet. It wants to change
The right side rule 71009 atobhisa::ais says bhis to
Now, according to Rishi Rajpotat view, right hand side rule wins. So we must do 71009.
While according to the "higher number wins" view, 73103 should win.
As the correct form is the one given by 71009, traditional grammarians must find here some excuse to make the rule "higher number wins" not work in this case.
^ 
Examples. The feminine stems
strI- "woman"
are all nadI stems, because they end in
Because of the exception neyaGuvaG below, stems that have only consonants before the
Exceptions:
strI- has one vowel, but is always nadI,
lakSmI- has two, but is optionally nadI.
and never
^ 
The iyaG uvaG nounbases are those mentioned in aciznu.
This rule can be roughly reworded as --
"Feminine stems that end in
"Yet
Some such bases are
Example. Before calling, the nadI shorten their final by ambArtha, and the calling is then lost by eGhra --
But the iyaG uvaG get neither shortening nor loss of
The iyaG uvaG may be nadI sometimes anyway. See vAmi and Gitihrasvazca.
^ Optional exception to neyaGuva. If we take this option, hrasvanadyA will work before Am --
Alternatively, they are not nadI, and neyaGuva works normally --
^ So, before Ge Gasi Gas Gi, we may choose if we want feminine nounbases such as
If we choose nadI, then idudbhyAm, ANnadyAH will work --
Alternatively, the nounbase will be a wee and other rules will work, such as accagheH --
^ Translating together this rule and the next, we can say --
"a wee is an
For instance,
The nounbases that end in short
(A) sakhi-, and uncompounded
(B) the nadI -- that is the feminines in
(C) the wee -- everything else that ends in
Being wee triggers some rules, such as accagheH. For instance, when adding Ge after
Yet, the nounbase
^ So, lone
But compounds of
^ A short vowel is light (unless exception saMyogeguru below applies).
The short vowels are
As for instance, here all the vowels are light --
NOTE: in rule puganta, the word
^ Exception to hrasvaMlaghu.
There are two sorts of heavy vowels. A short that is before a cluster is heavy by this rule. A long is always heavy, by next rule, dIrghaMca.
The shorts that I wrote between parens here --
are heavy because they are before clusters. If these were not heavy, the line would not sound like verse.
^ 
Long vowels (namely
Example. In this verse, and in fact everywhere else too, all
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