4.2.83
शर्कराया वा
Operational rule vidhi
Optionally after the word शर्करा the 4-fold significant affix is elided by लुप् .
Word by word (padaccheda)
Left context शर्करायाः pañcamī · ekavacanaIndeclinable वा 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
शर्करायाः वा
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Commentary
Optionally after the word शर्करा the 4-fold significant affix is elided by लुप् ।
Why do we say "Optionally"? The word शर्करा occurs in the classes कुमुदादि (2) and वराहादि (14) (4.2.80 classes 4 and 16), and must necessarily take the affixes ठच् and कक् taught therein: for had it not taken those affixes absolutely, their would have been no necessity of inserting this word in those classes. The present rule, therefore teaches by implication, that the word शर्करा takes the general affix अण्, besides the above two especial affixes, denoting locality And when the word takes this universal affix 4.1.83, there the option is, allowed, not otherwise. Thus शर्करा + अण् = शार्कर꣡म्, शर्करा + अण् लुप् = शर्करा ॥
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.