Praudhamanorama 60_337

60_337

On "the letter ai having the udatta accent": for the word manu has initial udatta, because in the rule prescribing the affix u after man, namely "śṝsvṛsnihi..." etc., there is the governing rule "nit in the case of grain".
By compounding the designation, he shows this: "udatta", which is continued, connects only with the letter ai due to contextual continuation, and not with the letter au as well. Therefore, what was stated by the older grammarian—that the letters ai and au have the udatta accent—is to be ignored, because it contradicts the gloss, the Padamañjarī, and so on; this is the point.
manāyī: having middle udatta. The other two have initial udatta.
etā: variegated.