Praudhamanorama p235

p235

[On] "sugāṇ": the lengthening is by "anunāsikasya kvijhaloḥ". Nor should one suspect the original element's status (sthānivadbhāva) of the elision of a and the elision of ṇi when that [lengthening] is to be done; the meaning is: because of its prohibition in a rule of lengthening, and because of the prohibition with respect to a rule conditioned by kvi. By this, he intimates that those who explain the older author's text "sugaṇṇīśaḥ" as kvi[p] after gaṇayati are to be disregarded. If, however, there is an insistence that his text also must be defended, it may be defended in this way: [a word] which, by being entirely elided, acts like kvi[p] is kvip. From the noun kvap, ending in the kvip of conduct, [comes] the agent-kvi[p]; by that, the meaning is 'a conqueror'. Thus end [the stems] ending in ṇ.