4.2.82
वरणादिभ्यश्च
Operational rule vidhi
Also after the word वरण etc. the affix denoting locality becomes elided but the number and gender are not changed.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Left context वरण- आदिभ्यः pañcamī · bahuvacanaIndeclinable 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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Full reading
वरण-
Pāṇini leaves out words that carry over from earlier sūtras. Expand to see the rule as a reader actually understands it.
Commentary
Also after the word वरण etc. the affix denoting locality becomes elided but the number and gender are not changed.
After the words वरण the quadruply significant affix is elided by लुप् ॥ The origination of this rule is for the sake of what is not a kingdom (or जनपद), to which the last rule applies. Thus वरणानामदूरभवं नगरं = वरणाः "the city (not a kingdom) not far from the place Varana", So also शृङ्गी, शाल्मलयः ॥
The word च in the sutra implies that this rule applies even to words other than those which are given in the list of वरणादि ॥ As कटुकबदरी "a city near to bitter Badari tree".
1 वरणा, (वरण) 2 शृङ्गी, 3 शाल्मलि, 4 शुण्डी, 5 शयाण्डी, 6 पर्णी, 7 ताम्रपर्णी, 8 गोद (पूर्वो गोदो, पूर्वेण गोदौ, अपरेण गोदौ), 9 आलिङ्ग्यायन, 10 जानपदी (जालपदी; जालपद) 11 जम्बू, 12 पुष्कर, 13 चम्पा, 14 पम्पा, 15 वल्गु, 16 उज्जयनी (उज्जयिनी), 17 गया, 18 मथुरा, 19 तक्षशिला, 20 उरसा (उरशा) 21 गोमती, 22 वलभी, 23 कटुकबदरी (with कन्दुक), 24 शिरीषाः 25 काञ्ची, 26 सदाण्डी, 27 वणिकि, 28 वणिक, Is also आकृतिगण ॥
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.