1.2.5
असंयोगाल्लिट् कित्
Extension atideśa कित्त्वातिदेशः
For a verb root that does not end in a संयोग, the अपित् प्रत्यय of लिट्-लकार behaves like a कित् प्रत्यय.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Left context असंयोगात् pañcamī · ekavacanaSubstitute / term लिट् prathamā · ekavacanaSubstitute / term कित् prathamā · ekavacana
- Left context Pañcamī (5th case): "after X", the operation applies to what follows (1.1.67 तस्मादित्युत्तरस्य). Also used for limits and sources.
- Substitute / term Prathamā (1st case): in operational rules, the substitute or the thing introduced; in definitions, the term or its referent.
Full reading
असंयोगात् लिट् कित्
Pāṇini leaves out words that carry over from earlier sūtras. Expand to see the rule as a reader actually understands it.
Commentary
The affixes of लिट् (Perfect Tense) not coming after a conjunct consonant, are as if they had an indicatory क् (कित्).
With this sutra begins the description of affixes which are regarded as कित् though not actually having a क् to mark them as such. The terminations of लिट् (Perfect) not being पित् terminations, are कित्, after verbs that have no compound consonants. The phrase अपित् (not being marked with प्) qualifies this sutra also, being drawn from the previous sutra by the rule of Anuvritti.
Thus from भिद् 'to tear' the Reduplicated non pit second person perfect is बिभिदतुः 'thou hast torn.' बिभिदुः 'They have torn.'
Similarly चिच्छिदतुः 'thou hast divided'; चिच्छिदुः 'you divided'; ईजतुः and ईजुः.
This rule will not apply if the root ends in a conjunct consonant. Thus स्रंस् 'to fall down' forms its second person Perfect :- सस्रंस् + अतुस् = सस्रंसतुः. Here the affix is not treated as kit; for had it been so treated, it would have caused the elision of the penultimate nasal (anusvara) of स्रंस by Rule 6.4.24. Similarly from ध्वंस् we have दध्वंसे.
The pit terminations of the Perfect are not kit; and therefore we have बिभेद 'he has divided,' where the root is gunated before the 3rd person singular termination णल् which is a पित् termination, because it being the substitute of तिप् is regarded like तिप् by 1.1.56.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.