3.4.5
समुच्चये सामान्यवचनस्य
Operational rule vidhi
In the second case -- समुच्चयेऽन्यतरस्याम् (3.4.3), where many actions are spoken of together, the verb that is made to follow, should be such as has the sense common to all those verbs.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Right context समुच्चये saptamī · ekavacanaTarget सामान्यवचनस्य ṣaṣṭhī · 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").
- Target Ṣaṣṭhī (6th case): names what gets replaced, "in place of X" (1.1.49 षष्ठी स्थानेयोगा).
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Commentary
In the second case -- समुच्चयेऽन्यतरस्याम् 3.4.3, where many actions are spoken of together, the verb that is made to follow, should be such as has the sense common to all those verbs.
Thus ओदनं भुङ्क्ष्व, सक्तून्पिब, धानाः खादेत्येवायमभ्यवहरति 'he takes his meals, eating rice, drinking saktu, and tasting fried corn'. Here the verb अभ्यवहरति has a sense common to all the verbs in the Imperative mood. The object of taking the second verb, having the senses common to all the antecedent verbs, is to prevent the repetition of all the previous ones. In the secular vernacular, the brevity, however, is often not approved.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.