3.1.115
भिद्योद्ध्यौ नदे
Operational rule vidhi
The words भिद्य and उद्ध्यौ are irregularly formed by the affix क्यप् , when meaning 'river'.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Substitute / term भिद्य- उद्ध्यौ prathamā · dvivacanaRight context नदे 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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भिद्य-
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Commentary
The words भिद्य and उद्ध्यौ are irregularly formed by the affix क्यप् , when meaning 'river'.
Thus भिद् + क्यप् = भिद्यः 'a river that breaks its banks by the rush of its water', the name of the Bhidya river.
ऊज्झ् + क्यप् = उद्ध्य 'a river whose waters overflow the banks', name of the Uddhya river; the झ is changed into ध.
When not meaning or qualifying the river, the regular forms are used; thus भेत्ता and उज्झिता.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.