2.3.61
प्रेष्यब्रुवोर्हविषो देवतासम्प्रदाने
Operational rule vidhi
The object of the verb प्रेष्य and ब्रूहि (imperative singular of दिवादि verb, meaning 'send' and 'utter') denoting sacrificial food, takes the 6th-Case-affix, when making offerings to deity is meant or when deity is the recipient.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Target प्रेष्य- ब्रुवोः ṣaṣṭhī · dvivacanaTarget हविषः ṣaṣṭhī · ekavacanaRight context देवता- saptamī · ekavacana
- Target Ṣaṣṭhī (6th case): names what gets replaced, "in place of X" (1.1.49 षष्ठी स्थानेयोगा).
- 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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Commentary
The object of the verb प्रेष्य and ब्रूहि (imperative singular of दिवादि verb, meaning 'send' and 'utter') denoting sacrificial food, takes the 6th-Case-affix, when making offerings to deity is meant or when deity is the recipient.
Ex. अग्नये छागस्य हविषोवपाया मेदसोऽनुब्रूहि प्रेष्य वा 'send to fire as oblation, the goat, the fat, and the marrow.' But not here —अग्नये छागं हविर्वपां मेदो जुहुधि. Because the verb is not preshya or bruhi So also not here अग्नये गोमयान् प्रेष्य. Because it is not an oblation. Not here too माणवकाय पुरोडाशं प्रेष्य. Because the recepient is not a diety. Compare 8.2.91.
Vart:- This rule does not apply when the word 'set out' qualifies the word हविः as; इन्द्राग्निभ्यां छागं हविर्वपां मेदः प्रस्थितं प्रेष्य 'send to Indra and Agni the oblation set out for them' &c.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.