anvakṣarasandhi

technical name for certain Sandhi or meeting of letters at

the end and beginning of words; viz. ^a. when a final vowel

or eṣaḥ, syaḥ or saḥ are followed by a consonant (the Vi-

sarga of these three words then being dropped); see anu-

loma; ^b. when a final consonant is followed by an initial

vowel; see pratiloma; ^c. when a final Visarga is followed

by a consonant called ūṣman q. v. which itself is followed

by a surd or hard consonant (the preceding Visarga then

being dropped, e. g. samudrā sthaḥ, instead of samudrāḥ sthaḥ);

see vaktra; ^d. when the particle īm is followed by the words

garbham, gāvaḥ, vatsam, mṛjanti, pṛcyate, sakhāyaḥ, vivyāca,

punar, riṇanti and ratham (the final m of īm then being

dropped). E. anu-akṣara and sandhi.