अदूरभवश्च

Operational rule vidhi

To indicate the name of a country by referring to the another country that is near it, an appropriate तद्धित प्रत्यय gets attached to the word in षष्ठीविभक्ति representing the name of the country that is nearby.

Word by word (padaccheda)

Substitute / term अदूरभवः prathamā · ekavacanaIndeclinable च avyaya

Substitute / term Prathamā (1st case): in operational rules, the substitute or the thing introduced; in definitions, the term or its referent.
Indeclinable An avyaya such as च "and", वा "optionally", न "not".

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Full reading

अदूरभवः च

Pāṇini leaves out words that carry over from earlier sūtras. Expand to see the rule as a reader actually understands it.

Commentary

And lastly a place is named after whatever is found near it.
In this aphorism the word, to which the affix is to be added, is not shown. The word तस्य must, therefore, be supplied from the last sutra. It means, therefore, "an affix is added to a word in the genetive case in construction, in the sense of not far off" the whole word being the name of a place. Thus विदिशाया अदूर भवं = वैदिशम् is the city in the neighbourhood of which the river Vidisa flows. So also हैमवतम् ॥

The च has the force of combining the sense of all the three previous aphorisms with this; so that the four sutras 67.68, 69 and 70 form but one complete sutra, and the meaning denoted by these will be understood in the subsequent aphorisms.

Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.