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 The same is true of certain pronouns and pronominal stems:  (491 b),  (500),  (503 b),  (513 c).

The cases of the pronominal stem are sometimes accented and sometimes accentless (502).

An accentless word is not allowed to stand at the beginning of a sentence; also not of a or primary division of a verse; a  is, in all matters relating to accentuation, treated like an independent sentence.

Some words have more than a single accented syllable. Such are:

Certain dual copulative compounds in the Veda (see 1255), as, Also, a few other Vedic compounds (see 1267 d), as

In a few cases, the further compounds and derivatives of such compounds, as

Infinitive datives in (see 972 a), as

A word naturally barytone, but having its final syllable protracted (see 78 a).

The particle (in the Brāhmaṇas).

On the place of the accented syllable in a Sanskrit word there is no restriction whatever depending upon either the number or the quantity of the preceding or following syllables. The accent rests where the rules of inflection or derivation or composition place it, without regard to any thing else.

Thus,

Since the accent is marked only in the older literature, and the statements of the grammarians, with the deduced rules of accentuation, are far from being sufficient to settle all cases, the place of the stress of voice for a considerable part of the vocabulary is undetermined. Hence it is a general habit with European scholars to pronounce Sanskrit words according to the rules of the Latin accent.