प्राद्वहः

Operational rule vidhi

After the verb वह् 'to bear', coming after प्र , परस्मैपद is used, even though the fruit of the action accrues to the the agent.

Word by word (padaccheda)

Left context प्रात् pañcamī · ekavacanaLeft context वहः pañcamī · ekavacana

Left context Pañcamī (5th case): "after X", the operation applies to what follows (1.1.67 तस्मादित्युत्तरस्य). Also used for limits and sources.

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प्रात् वहः

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Commentary

After the verb वह् 'to bear', coming after प्र , परस्मैपद is used, even though the fruit of the action accrues to the the agent.
The root वह to carry is svaritet, and by sutra 1.3.72 it would have taken the Atmanepada termination when the fruit of the action accrued to the agent. But the present sutra ordains parasmaipada instead. As प्रवहति 'it flows.'

Why do we say "when coming after pra"? Because after any other preposition it will not take parasmaipada, as आवहते 'he brings.'

Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.