4.2.38
भिक्षादिभ्योऽण्
Operational rule vidhi
The affix अण् comes the sense is 'a collection thereof' after the words भिक्षा etc.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Left context भिक्षा- आदिभ्यः pañcamī · bahuvacanaSubstitute / term अ 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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Full reading
भिक्षा-
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Commentary
The affix अण् comes the sense is 'a collection thereof' after the words भिक्षा etc.
The repetition of the word अण् in this sutra, though its anuvritti was here, is for the sake of removing the operation of any obstructing rule.
Thus भिक्षाणां समूहः = भैक्षम् 'what is collected in the shape of alms'. So also गर्भिणी + अण् = गर्भिण् + अण् (the masculine form of a Bha is substituted, when a Taddhita affix follows without an indicatory ढ, भस्याढे तद्धिते) = गर्भिणः 6.4.164, In the case of युवति, the word however is not changed to its masculine form. Thus युवतीनां समूहः = यौवतम् 'a collection of young women'.
1 भिक्षा, 2 गर्भिणी, 3 क्षेत्र, 4 करीष, 5 अङ्गार, 6 चर्मन् (चर्मिन् according to some texts) 7 सहस्र, 8 युवति, 9 पदाति, 10 पद्धति, 11 अथर्वन, (also अर्वन् K.) 12 दक्षिणा, 13 भूत, 14 विषय, 15 श्रोत्र. also 16 धर्मिन्
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.