2.1.5
अव्ययीभावः
Definition saṃjñā अव्ययीभावसंज्ञाHeading adhikāra अव्ययीभावाधिकारः
The समासाः told till 2.1.22 are called अव्ययीभावसमासाः .
Word by word (padaccheda)
Term / subject prathamā · ekavacana
- Term / subject Prathamā (1st case): the term being defined, or the subject of the statement.
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Commentary
From this point forward whatever we shall describe will get the name अव्ययीभाव समास or adverbial compound.
This is also an adhikara aphorism like the last. As far as sūtra 21, the compounds treated of, will get the designation of Avyayibhava. The word अव्ययीभाव like the word कर्मप्रवचनीय is a self-descriptive term, and not an arbitrary term like डि,धि &c. When that which was not an indeclinable becomes an indeclinable, it is called stain or 'becoming an indeclinable'. In the Avyayibhava compound the sense of the first of its elements is the main one or the independent one on which the other depends.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.