3.2.105
छन्दसि लिट्
Operational rule vidhi
In the छन्दस् (Vedas), the affix लिट् (Perfect Tense) comes after a verb with a past signification.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Right context छन्दसि saptamī · ekavacanaSubstitute / term prathamā · ekavacana
- 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").
- Substitute / term Prathamā (1st case): in operational rules, the substitute or the thing introduced; in definitions, the term or its referent.
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छन्दसि लिट्
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Commentary
In the छन्दस् (Vedas), the affix लिट् (Perfect Tense) comes after a verb with a past signification.
As अहं सूर्यमुभयतो ददर्श 'I saw the sun from both sides'; अहं द्यावापृथिवी आततान 'I stretched the heaven and the earth'. Here the words ददर्श and आततान have the force of nishtha. See Yaj. Ved. (VIII.9).
Why this separate sutra, when by aphorism 3.4.61, in the Chhandas the lun, lan and lit come in all tenses ? That rule is made with regards to two or more verbs when in syntactical relation (धातुसम्बन्ध) with each other 3.4.1. The present rule is general, and without any such limitations.
Lit is the affix of the Present Perfect and will be fully treated of in the conjugation of verbs.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.