3.1.1
प्रत्ययः
Definition saṃjñā प्रत्ययसंज्ञाHeading adhikāra प्रत्ययाधिकारः
Everything told in this अधिकार are known as प्रत्ययाः.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Term / subject prathamā · ekavacana
- Term / subject Prathamā (1st case): the term being defined, or the subject of the statement.
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Full reading
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Commentary
An affix.
This is an aphorism intended solely to regulate the sense of others. From this place forward up to the end of the Fifth Book, whatsoever we shall treat of, will get the name of 'Pratyaya' or an affix, except the 'prakriti' or base (such as गुप्, तिम्, कित् in 3.1.5 are bases, the affix being सन्), the 'upapada' or dependent word (such as स्तम्ब, शकृत in 3.2.24 are upapadas), the 'upadhi' or attribute, the special cause that occasions changes (such as पशु in III.2.25 is an upadhi); in the sutra, 3.2.25, the word हरति is a prakriti, दृति and नाथ are upapadas, पशु is an upadhi, the affix being इन्, the substitute and the augment. Such as the affixes तव्यत्, तव्य, अनीयर् taught in 3.1.96, as कर्त्तव्यम्, करणीयम् 'to be done'.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.