Praudhamanorama p41

p41

Regarding "dve vā": Kaiyaṭa on the rule "nājjhalau" (Pā. Sū. 1.1.10) states that the word vā continues from the rule "yaro'nunāsike" (Pā. Sū. 8.4.45). And so the idea is that the rule "sarvatra śākalyasya" (Pā. Sū. 8.4.51), as well as the two rules before and after it which are an elaboration of it, need not be formulated. As for the fact that some exert themselves to consider a justification for the option cited in the Bhāṣya as "vākk", on the view that the mention of "ācāryāṇām" in the rule "dīrghādācāryāṇām" (Pā. Sū. 8.4.52) is for the sake of honor—that is completely pointless; for an honorific purpose is not stated by authoritative authors, because the mention of Śākaṭāyana in the rule "triprabhṛtiṣu" (Pā. Sū. 8.4.50) would also result in being so. Nor can that be accepted as desirable, because of the contradiction with texts of Kaiyaṭa, Haradatta, and others that maintain three s-sounds in saṃskartā, and because of contradiction with their own texts. For this very reason, in the Prātiśākhyabhāṣya too, an optional doubling of the t-sound is cited in the mantra "ā tvā ratham". And Mādhava has stated an optional doubling of the s-sound in āste. And thus the statement that doubling of the t-sound in dhātraṃśa is incorrect is itself incorrect; this is the direction of the thought.