3.3.44
अभिविधौ भाव इनुण्
Operational rule vidhi
The affix इनुण् comes after a root in denoting condition when co-extensiveness is meant.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Right context अभिविधौ saptamī · ekavacanaRight context भावे saptamī · ekavacanaSubstitute / term इनुण् 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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Full reading
अभिविधौ भावे इनुण्
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Commentary
The affix इनुण् comes after a root in denoting condition when co-extensiveness is meant.
The word अभिविधि means co-extensiveness, that is to say, the complete comprehension or relation between the action and the quality. Thus सांराविणम् 'a general or tumultuous uproar'; सं + कूट् + इन् + अण 5.4.15 and 5.4.16 = 'a general confusion'; so सांस्राविणम् 'a general flow or stream'.
Why do we say 'when meaning co-extensiveness'? Observe सङ्कोटः, संरावः, सन्द्रावः ।
Why do we use the word भाव again in this sutra, when its anuvritti was already flowing from sutra 3.3.18? The object is that the वाऽसरूप rule 3.1.94 should not apply here and hence घञ् never comes in this sense. Patanjali says that the repetition is for the sake of indicating that in neuter gender, when co-extensiveness is expressed, the affixes क्त &c. are prohibited; so that the affixes क्त &c. should not come in the neuter with the force of भाव ।
The separateness of this sutra is for the same purpose as the last aphorism. The affix ल्युट् is not, however, prohibited; as सङ्कुटनम्. See rule कृत्यल्युटो बहुलं 3.3.113. The affix इनुण् (the operative part being इन्) forms but an imaginary stem, which does not become real and complete till it takes the affix अण् by 5.4.15, as shown above.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.