4.2.16
संस्कृतं भक्षाः
Operational rule vidhi
To indicate a food item using the vessel or the medium used for its processing / culturing / preparation, an appropriate तद्धितप्रत्यय can be used with the word in the सप्तमी विभक्ति indicating the name of the vessel or the medium.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Substitute / term संस्कृतम् prathamā · ekavacanaSubstitute / term भक्षाः prathamā · bahuvacana
- 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
संस्कृतम् भक्षाः
Pāṇini leaves out words that carry over from earlier sūtras. Expand to see the rule as a reader actually understands it.
Commentary
The affix अण् comes after a word ending in the Locative -7th case to denote 'what is prepared therein' -if that which is so prepared be 'granular food'.
Thus भ्राष्ट्रे संस्कृता भक्षा = भ्राष्टाः 'a cake fried in the pan'. Similarly कालशाः कौम्भाः ॥ Why do we say "if it means food"? Observe पुष्पपुटे संस्कृतो मालागुणः ॥
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.