2.2.5
कालाः परिमाणिना
Operational rule vidhi
Words denoting time are compounded when in construction, with words denoting the object whose duration is measured by the time, and the compound is तत्-पुरुष.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Substitute / term कालाः prathamā · bahuvacanaWith / by परिमाणिना tṛtīyā · ekavacana
- Substitute / term Prathamā (1st case): in operational rules, the substitute or the thing introduced; in definitions, the term or its referent.
- With / by Tṛtīyā (3rd case): accompaniment or means.
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Full reading
कालाः परिमाणिना
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Commentary
Words denoting time are compounded when in construction, with words denoting the object whose duration is measured by the time, and the compound is तत्-पुरुष।
This is also a kind of genitive compound. As मासो जातस्य = मासजातः 'a month old' (born a month ago.) So also संवत्सरजातः 'a year old'.
द्व्यहजातः 'two-days' old.' &c.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.