आदौ कर्तृपदं वाच्यं द्वितीयादिपदं ततः ।
क्त्वातुमुन्ल्यप्च मध्ये तु कुर्यादन्ते क्रियापदम ॥
ādau kartṛ-padaṁ vācyaṁ dvitīyādi-padaṁ tataḥ |
ktvā-tumun-lyap ca madhye tu kuryād ante kriyā-padam ||
(Samāsa-cakram: 4)
“First, state the word for the agent (kartṛ-padam), then words in the second case and so forth [i.e., the object, etc.], [thereafter] in the middle words containing the ktvā, tumun, and lyap suffixes [i.e., all non-finite, indeclinable verbal forms], and at the end the word for the verb (kriyā-padam).”