3.3.169
अर्हे कृत्यतृचश्च
Operational rule vidhi
The affixes कृत्य and the affix तृच are added to a root when fitness as regards the agent is implied (as well as in the affix लिङ् (Benedictive) ).
Word by word (padaccheda)
Right context अर्हे saptamī · ekavacanaSubstitute / term - तृ अः prathamā · bahuvacanaIndeclinable 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").
- 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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Commentary
The affixes कृत्य and the affix तृच are added to a root when fitness as regards the agent is implied (as well as in the affix लिङ् (Benedictive) ).
The force of च is to introduce the Potential (लिङ्) into this, from the last. Thus भवता खलु कन्या वोढव्या वाह्या or वहनीया, (kritya); or भवान् खलु कन्यया वोढा (trich); or भवान् खलु कन्यां वहेत् (lin) 'your honor is fit to marry the girl'.
Why specifically enjoin 'kritya' and 'trich' in the sense of fitness? They being enjoined universally, would a fortiori, be applied when fitness is to be denoted ? Because the लिङ् being specially enjoined to denote fitness, and being an Apavada, would have debarred kritya and trich, which being universal affixes, would give way. Nor can we, to prevent this contingency, take shelter under rule 3.1.94 of 'non-uniform affixes', for we have seen that that rule is not universally valid.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.