निष्ठा

Operational rule vidhi

What ends with a निष्ठा (1.1.26) shall stand first in a बहुव्रीही compound.

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Substitute / term prathamā · ekavacana

Substitute / term Prathamā (1st case): in operational rules, the substitute or the thing introduced; in definitions, the term or its referent.

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Commentary

What ends with a निष्ठा 1.1.26 shall stand first in a बहुव्रीही compound.
Thus युक्तयोगः 'one who is devoted to devotion'; कृतकठः 'one who has made the mat'; भिक्षितभिक्षिः 'one who has begged alms.'

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