3.2.69
क्रव्ये च
Operational rule vidhi
The affix विट् comes after the verb अद् 'to eat' when the word क्रव्य is in composition with it.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Right context क्रव्ये saptamī · ekavacanaIndeclinable च avyaya
- 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").
- Indeclinable An avyaya such as च "and", वा "optionally", न "not".
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क्रव्ये च
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Commentary
The affix विट् comes after the verb अद् 'to eat' when the word क्रव्य is in composition with it.
As क्रव्यमत्ति = क्रव्यात् 'carnivorous'.
Why has it been made a separate sutra, when this form could have been obtained by the last sutra also? To this the vartika replies: 'This has been made a separate sutra in order to indicate that the rule of वासरूप 3.1.94 does not apply here. Therefore the affix अण् will not apply in the alternative. If the affix अण् does not apply, how then we get the form क्रव्यादः which is evidently formed by the affix अण् ? The affix अण् comes after the root when the word formed means the eater of meat which has been cut, dressed and cooked'; thus क्रव्यादः means a man who eats meat cooked and prepared, i. e. a meat-eater as opposed to a vegetarian, while क्रव्यात् means an animal which eats raw flesh; the word क्रव्यादः in fact may be regarded as an irregular form falling under पृषोदरादि class of sutra 6.3.109.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.