2.2.38
कडाराः कर्मधारये
Operational rule vidhi
The words कडाराः and the like, are optionally placed first in the कर्मधार्य.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Substitute / term कडाराः prathamā · bahuvacanaRight context saptamī · ekavacana
- 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
कडाराः
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Commentary
The words कडाराः and the like, are optionally placed first in the कर्मधार्य।
Thus कडारजैमिनिः or जैमिनिकडारः Kadarajaiminih or jaiminikadarah. 'The tawny Jaimini.'
1.कडार. 2. गडुल. 3. खञ्ज. 4.खोड. 5.काण. 6.कुण्ठ. 7.खलति . 8. गौर. 9.वृद्ध. 10. भिक्षुक. 11. पिङ्ग. 12. पिङ्गल. 13. ( पिङ्गल). 14. तद्ध. 15.तनु 16. जठर. 17. बधिर. 18. मठर. 19.कञ्ज. 20. बर्बर.
This sūtra enjoins an option where by general rule guna words being attributes would have invariably stood first.
Why do we say 'in the karmadharaya compound'? Observe कडारपुरुषो ग्रामः 'a village of tawny men,' which is Bahuvreehi_. Here ends the force of 1.4.1 and 2.1.3.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.