3.3.162
लोट् च
Operational rule vidhi
लोट्लकार can be used to indicate विधि (= order) , निमन्त्रण ( = an invitation that cannot be rejected), आमन्त्रण (= an invitation that can be rejected), अधीष्ट (= Ask something with respect, often in exchange of money or something else), सम्प्रश्न (= A question about doing or not doing something) and प्रार्थना (= request).
Word by word (padaccheda)
Substitute / term prathamā · ekavacanaIndeclinable च avyaya
- Substitute / term Prathamā (1st case): in operational rules, the substitute or the thing introduced; in definitions, the term or its referent.
- Indeclinable An avyaya such as च "and", वा "optionally", न "not".
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लोट् च
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Commentary
The affix लोट् (Imperative) is used after a root in the sense of commanding etc.
The Imperative Mood is employed also under the circumstances mentioned in the last aphorism. The division of this aphorism from the last, is for the sake of subsequent sutras in which the anuvritti of लोट् only runs and not those of others. Thus :--
(1) कटं तावद् भवान् करोतु 'make the mat'; ग्रामं भवान् आगच्छतु ।
(2 and 3) अमुत्र भवान् आस्ताम् 'there you are invited to, or you may, sit'.
(4) पुत्रम्भवान् अध्यापयतु 'you will teach, I hope, the son'.
(5) किं भो वेदमध्ययै उत तर्कं 'Sir what shall I learn, the Veda or the Logic'?
(6) भवति मे प्रार्थना व्याकरणमध्ययै छन्दोऽध्ययै 'this is my prayer that I may learn the Grammar, or that I may learn the Prosody'.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.