349 - అథ కౌమార వ్యాకరణమ్

Summary of chapter 350 of the Agni Purāṇa is as follows:

The rules governing the junction of sounds (sandhi) are presented with worked examples. Svara-sandhi (vowel junction) is treated first: identical vowels coalesce into the corresponding long vowel (a + a = ā), dissimilar vowels combine according to the rules of guṇa and vṛddhi, and semi-vowel substitution (yaṇādeśa) and glide formation rules are illustrated with ślokas. Vyañjana-sandhi (consonant junction) covers the assimilation of stop consonants, the insertion of the nasal, and the treatment of the anusvāra and visarga. Visarga-sandhi rules — the change of visarga before voiced consonants to the corresponding sibilant or to the vowel o — are worked through with Purāṇic compound words as examples.