3.3.88
ड्वितः क्त्रिः
Operational rule vidhi
The affix क्त्रि comes after the verb which has an indicatory डु when denoting mere action etc.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Left context ड्वितः pañcamī · ekavacanaSubstitute / term त्रि ः prathamā · ekavacana
- Left context Pañcamī (5th case): "after X", the operation applies to what follows (1.1.67 तस्मादित्युत्तरस्य). Also used for limits and sources.
- 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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ड्वितः क्त्रिः
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Commentary
The affix क्त्रि comes after the verb which has an indicatory डु when denoting mere action etc.
The phrases 'when the sense is that of mere action', and 'when the sense is that of an appellative, the word being related to the verb from which its name is deduced, but not as agent', are of course understood in this, as in all the previous aphorisms. Then by 4.4.20, (of the affix क्ति, मप् is always the augment) we must add म, for we can not use the affix त्रि alone; but we must always use त्रिम. Thus डुपचष् to cook--पक्तिमम् 'what is ripe'; डुवप्--उपत्रिमम् 'sown' 6.1.15; डुकृञ्--कृत्रिमम् 'artificial'.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.