स्वरितात् संहितायाम् अनुदात्तानाम्

Sanhita is the joining of two or more words in a sentence, for the purposes of reading or reciting. When words are thus glued together, then the anudatta accents become Ekasruti if they are preceded by svarita vowels; and are pronounced monotonously. As इमं मे॑ गङ्गे यमुने सरस्वती (Rig Veda X. 75. 5) O Ganga, Yamuna, Sarasvsti ! this mine.

Here the word इमं has udatta on the last syallable: the word मे is originally anudatta, but by rule 8.4.66 \\[1\\] following an udatta, it is changed into svarita; after this svarita all anudatta like गङ्गे, &c., are replaced by ekasruti. All the vowels of the words गङ्गे, यमुने &c, had anudatta accent by rule 8.1.19 \\[2\\] (all vocatives get anudatta if standing in the middle of a sentence and not beginning a stanza.)

The word \sanhita\ has been used in the sutra to show that when there is a hiatus between the words then there is no change of anudatta into ekasruti. The word sanhita will be defined in sutra 1.4.109 \\[3\\].

## Footnotes
- [1] - उदात्तादनुदात्तस्य स्वरितः
- [2] - आमन्त्रितस्य च ॥
- [3] - परः संनिकर्षः संहिता ॥,