1.3.77
विभाषोपपदेन प्रतीयमाने
Operational rule vidhi
The आत्मनेपद is optionally used, when the fact of the fruit of the action accruing to the agent is indicted by an उपपदग i.e. by a word used along with the verb.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Substitute / term prathamā · ekavacanaWith / by tṛtīyā · ekavacanaRight context प्रतीयमाने saptamī · ekavacana
- Substitute / term Prathamā (1st case): in operational rules, the substitute or the thing introduced; in definitions, the term or its referent.
- With / by Tṛtīyā (3rd case): accompaniment or means.
- Right context Saptamī (7th case): "when X follows", the operation applies to what precedes (1.1.66 तस्मिन्निति निर्दिष्टे पूर्वस्य). Also a condition or domain ("in the sense of").
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Commentary
The आत्मनेपद is optionally used, when the fact of the fruit of the action accruing to the agent is indicted by an उपपदग i.e. by a word used along with the verb.
By the preceding five sutras 1.3.72 to 1.3.76, Atmanepada terminations were ordained to come after verbs which implied the accrual of the fruit of the action to the agent, that is to say, where the verb by itself denoted this. But when the same idea, instead of being inherent in the verb, is expressed by an upapada, that is by a word governed by the verb, the necessity of using the Atmanepada affixes, to denote the same idea, is obviously removed, and in such a case it is optional whether we use the Atmanepada or the Parasmaipada terminations. As स्वं यज्ञं यजति or यजते 'he sacrifices for his own yajna'; स्वं कटं करोति or कुरुते 'he makes his own cot.'; स्वं पुत्रमपवदति or अपवदते; स्वंमोदनं पाचवते or पाचयति, &c. So on with all the above five sutras.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.