3.3.138
परस्मिन् विभाषा
Operational rule vidhi
Optionally so, when a declaration is made with regard to that side of a limit of time.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Right context परस्मिन् 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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परस्मिन्
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Commentary
Optionally so, when a declaration is made with regard to that side of a limit of time.
The whole of the last aphorism must be read into this: The sutra will then stand thus: "The Second and the First Futures are optionally both employed in denoting future time, not belonging to the current day, instead of the First Future alone, when the word पर is used signifying a limit of time on that side of a fixed period, provided that this word does not give the sense of day or night".
This rule allows an option when the time refers to the पर side of a starting limit. Thus योऽयं संवत्सर आगामी तस्य यत् परमाग्रहायण्यास्तत्र युक्ता अध्येष्यामहे or अध्येतास्महे 'we will read together in the month of Chaitra, the year after next'.
All the counter-examples given under the last aphorism, are also valid here by substituting the word पर instead of अवर.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.