4.1.26
संख्याव्ययादेर्ङीप्
Operational rule vidhi
The affix ङीप् comes in the feminine after a बहुव्रीहि समास ending in the word ऊधस् 'an udder', beginning with a Numeral or indeclinable.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Left context - अव्ययादेः pañcamī · ekavacanaSubstitute / term ङीप् 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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Commentary
The affix ङीप् comes in the feminine after a बहुव्रीहि समास ending in the word ऊधस् 'an udder', beginning with a Numeral or indeclinable.
This sutra ordains 'nip', where by the last sutra there would have been 'nish'. Thus द्वी + ऊधस् + अनङ् + ङीप् 5.4.131 = द्व्यूध्नी 'having two udders'; so also त्र्यूध्नी, 'having three udders'. The above are Bahuvrihi compounds beginning with a Numeral. Similarly अत्यूध्नी 'many-uddered.; निरूध्नी 'having no udders'.
Why do we say 'beginning with'? So that the rule may apply to compounds like द्विविधोध्नी and त्रिविधोध्नी, in which the words 'dvividha' and 'trividha', though not Sankhya are words which begin with a Sankhya.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.