कोपधाच्च

Operational rule vidhi

The affix अण् comes in the 4-fold sense after a stem having क् for its penultimate.

Word by word (padaccheda)

Left context कोपधात् pañcamī · ekavacanaIndeclinable च avyaya

Left context Pañcamī (5th case): "after X", the operation applies to what follows (1.1.67 तस्मादित्युत्तरस्य). Also used for limits and sources.
Indeclinable An avyaya such as च "and", वा "optionally", न "not".

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कोपधात् च

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Commentary

The affix अण् comes in the 4-fold sense after a stem having क् for its penultimate.
This debars अञ् which would have come by 4.2.71 and 4.2.73. Thus कार्णच्छिद्रिकः कूपः ॥ कार्णवाकवम्, त्रैशङ्कवम् ॥

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