1.4.43
दिवः कर्म च
Definition saṃjñā कारकसंज्ञाDefinition saṃjñā करणसंज्ञा
That which is especially auxiliary in the accomplishment of the action, of the verb दिव् 'to play' is called कर्म - object, as well as करण.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Of दिवः ṣaṣṭhī · ekavacanaTerm / subject prathamā · ekavacanaIndeclinable च avyaya
- Of Ṣaṣṭhī (6th case): "of X". In this kind of sūtra it marks a relation, not a substitution.
- Term / subject Prathamā (1st case): the term being defined, or the subject of the statement.
- Indeclinable An avyaya such as च "and", वा "optionally", न "not".
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Full reading
दिवः च
Pāṇini leaves out words that carry over from earlier sūtras. Expand to see the rule as a reader actually understands it.
Commentary
That which is especially auxiliary in the accomplishment of the action, of the verb दिव् 'to play' is called कर्म - object, as well as करण।
The present sutra ordains accusative case, where by the operation of the last aphorism there ought to have been Instrumental case. The force of च in the sutra is to indicate that karana is also to be read into this. As अक्षात् दीव्यति or अक्षै र्दीव्यति he plays the dice or with the dice.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.