3.4.76
क्तोऽधिकरणे च ध्रौव्यगतिप्रत्यवसानार्थेभ्यः
Operational rule vidhi
The affix क्त which is ordained after roots denoting fixedness (to cling to a place), motion and taking gives the sense of location as well.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Substitute / term त ः prathamā · ekavacanaRight context saptamī · ekavacanaIndeclinable च avyayaLeft context ध्रौव्य- - प्रत्यवसानार्थेभ्यः pañcamī · bahuvacana
- Substitute / term Prathamā (1st case): in operational rules, the substitute or the thing introduced; in definitions, the term or its referent.
- 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").
- Indeclinable An avyaya such as च "and", वा "optionally", न "not".
- Left context Pañcamī (5th case): "after X", the operation applies to what follows (1.1.67 तस्मादित्युत्तरस्य). Also used for limits and sources.
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Full reading
क्तः च ध्रौव्य-
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Commentary
The affix क्त which is ordained after roots denoting fixedness (to cling to a place), motion and taking gives the sense of location as well.
The verbs denoting ध्रौव्य or 'persisting in a place' are Intransitive verbs. The word pratyavasana means 'eating' also; the force of च in the sutra is that the affix kta expresses other relations also. Thus after verbs denoting 'fixedness' or dhrauvyartha it denotes the agent, the act and the location; after verbs denoting 'motion' it gives the sense of agent, object, act and location; after verbs denoting 'taking or eating', it has the sense of object, act and location. Thus आसितो देवदत्तः 'Devadatta sat'; आसितं तेन 'sitting by him' (act); इदमेषामासितम् 'this was their seat' (location); यातो देवदत्तो ग्रामम् 'Devadatta went to the village' (active); यातो देवदत्तेन ग्रामः (passive); यातं देवदत्तेन (abstract); इदमेषां यातम् 'this is their place of going' (location); भुक्त ओदनो देवदत्तेन (passive); भुक्त ओदनं देवदत्तः (active); देवदत्तेन भुक्तम् (abstract); इदमेषां भुक्तम् (location); कथं भुक्ता ब्राह्मणाः । पीता गावः । The आ in भुक्ता and पीता has the force of मतुप् 4.2.85. भुक्तमेषामस्ति or पीतमेषामस्ति ।
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.