3.2.77
स्थः क च
Operational rule vidhi
The affixes क and क्विप् come after the verb स्था when in composition with a word ending in a case-affix or an उपसर्ग .
Word by word (padaccheda)
Left context स्थः pañcamī · ekavacanaWord क Indeclinable 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.
- Word Case not marked in the source data.
- Indeclinable An avyaya such as च "and", वा "optionally", न "not".
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Full reading
स्थः क च
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Commentary
The affixes क and क्विप् come after the verb स्था when in composition with a word ending in a case-affix or an उपसर्ग ।
Why has this aphorism been made, when by rule 3.1.4, स्था would have taken क and by rule 3.1.75, it would have taken क्विप् also? This repetition is for the purpose of prohibiting the prohibition, that is to say, the sutra 3.2.14 prohibited the sutra 3.2.4, and the present sutra removes that prohibition. Thus शंस्थः and शंस्थाः । But for this sutra, this form could not have been evolved; for, with the upapada शम्, the verb स्था would have taken the affix अच् by 3.2.14.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.