2.2.25
संख्ययाऽव्ययासन्नादूराधिकसंख्याः संख्येये
Operational rule vidhi
indeclinable words and the words आसन्न 'near', अदूर 'near', अधिक 'more' and the words called संख्या (Numerals) are compounded with another संख्या word, when the sense is that of a numeral or संख्या। The compound is बहुव्रीही.
Word by word (padaccheda)
With / by संख्यया tṛtīyā · ekavacanaSubstitute / term - आसन्न- अदूर- अधिक- prathamā · bahuvacanaRight context संख्येये saptamī · ekavacana
- With / by Tṛtīyā (3rd case): accompaniment or means.
- Substitute / term Prathamā (1st case): in operational rules, the substitute or the thing introduced; in definitions, the term or its referent.
- 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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Full reading
संख्यया -
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Commentary
indeclinable words and the words आसन्न 'near', अदूर 'near', अधिक 'more' and the words called संख्या (Numerals) are compounded with another संख्या word, when the sense is that of a numeral or संख्या। The compound is बहुव्रीही।
Thus उपदशाः 5.4.73 'those who are near ten i.e. nine or eleven.' Similarly उपविंशः 'nineteen or twenty-one' 6.4.142. So also आसन्नदशाः 'nine or eleven.' अदूरदशाः 'nine or eleven.' अधिकदशाः 'eleven.'
So also two 'numerals' may be compounded; as, द्वित्राः 'two or three.' द्विदशाः 'twenty.'
Why do we say with a numeral'? Observe पंच ब्राह्मणाः 'five Brahmanas.'
Why do we say 'with an Indeclinable &c'? Witness ब्राह्मणाः पंच. Why do we say 'when denoting a numeral'? Observc अधिका विंशतिर्गवाम्' of cows more than twenty.'
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.