परश्च

Heading adhikāra प्रत्ययस्य परत्वाधिकारः

All the words told in this अधिकार are to be attached at the end of the प्रकृति.

Word by word (padaccheda)

Term / subject परः prathamā · ekavacanaIndeclinable च avyaya

Term / subject Prathamā (1st case): the term being defined, or the subject of the statement.
Indeclinable An avyaya such as च "and", वा "optionally", न "not".

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Full reading

परः च

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Commentary

And subsequent.
This is also an 'adhikara' or regulating sutra, and is understood in all subsequent aphorisms; or it might also be called a 'paribhasha' or interpreting aphorism. That which is called an affix comes after, or is placed after, the 'dhatu' or root, or the 'pratipadika' or crude form; as कर्त्तव्यम् and तैत्तिरीयम्.

The force of the word च 'and' in this sutra is to indicate that the affixes here treated of, are to be placed after a root &c.; not so, however the affixes, may sometimes, be placed in the beginning or the middle of a word.

Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.