4.2.4
लुबविशेषे
Operational rule vidhi
To indicate the meaning of 'time occupied by a certain नक्षत्र', an appropriate तद्धित प्रत्यय which gets attached to the word in तृतीया विभक्ति undergoes a लुप् if the time being indicated does not have a particular name.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Substitute / term prathamā · ekavacanaRight context अविशेषे saptamī · ekavacana
- 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").
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Full reading
अविशेषे
Pāṇini leaves out words that carry over from earlier sūtras. Expand to see the rule as a reader actually understands it.
Commentary
The affix above ordained is elided by लुप् when there is no specification.
That is the affix enjoined by the preceding aphorism is elided if no specification is to be understood of a particular portion of time such as night &c. Thus अद्यः पुष्यः 'to day belongs to the asterism Pushya' meaning that to-day the moon is in conjunction with Pushya; but by 'to-day' neither the day time in particular nor the night time in particular is meant, but both alike. The time is day and night, when there is no specification of such time, whether it is day or night, then there is elision.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.