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Also because of contradiction with one's own and others' texts, such as "the status of am as having m as a marker is because it ends in a"; for it is not the case that am whose indicatory letter has been shed is not an affix, such that it would not have m as a marker. Furthermore, in this way, if an ablative case were to bring about a genitive case in an affix rule, then on the suspicion that the substitute of san might just be san itself, the statement of the Bhāṣyakāra and Kaiyaṭa that there would be no technical name [of affix] because of the absence of original enunciation would be contradicted. Furthermore, on the rule "na dhātulopa-" [Pāṇini 1.1.4], the Mahābhāṣya text "Why the mention of dhātu? [Take] lūñ → lavitā, pūñ → pavitā" and Kaiyaṭa's text intending that "only when the elision of the indicatory letter is performed in the original enunciation does the technical name dhātu apply thereafter" would be contradicted. Moreover, on the rule "ghvasor eddhau" (Pāṇini 6.4.119), the formulation has two ś-sounds as lopaś śa ca, where the second ś-sound is an marker—texts such as the Mahābhāṣya and Kaiyaṭa on the rule "alo 'ntyasya" [Pāṇini 1.1.52] would also be contradicted.
Nor is it the second [alternative]: for if only etymology is relied upon, an exhaustive enumeration is useless; and because the distinction that an instrumental derivation applies to roots, etc., but not to augments, etc., is difficult to substantiate; and because of contradiction with one's own text, which states: "The meaning is that a final consonant of an aggregate delimited by an attribute such as root-ness, which causes the status of being an original enunciation, is a marker"; and because on either view, the Liṅgānuśāsana is useless for the present purpose; and because the sound ś in lopaś śa ca would not be included; and because in rules like "ādeca upadeśe" (Pāṇini 6.1.45) and "upadeśe 'tvataḥ" (Pāṇini 7.3.62), that the meaning of the word upadeśa is strictly 'initial pronunciation' is universally accepted. Such is the direction.