3.2.64
वहश्च
Operational rule vidhi
The affix णिव after the verb वह् 'to carry' in the छन्दस् (Vedas), when the word ending in case-affix is in composition with it.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Left context वहः pañcamī · ekavacanaIndeclinable च avyaya
- Left context Pañcamī (5th case): "after X", the operation applies to what follows (1.1.67 तस्मादित्युत्तरस्य). Also used for limits and sources.
- Indeclinable An avyaya such as च "and", वा "optionally", न "not".
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वहः च
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Commentary
The affix णिव after the verb वह् 'to carry' in the छन्दस् (Vedas), when the word ending in case-affix is in composition with it.
As प्रष्ठवाह् Ist sing. प्रष्ठवाट् 'carrying a prashtha measure'; so, दित्यवाट् ।
This division of this sutra from the last is for the sake of the subsequent sutras, into which the anuvritti of वह् only is carried and not of सह्. See Yajur. Veda. (XIV. 10), (XVIII.26).
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.