4.2.89
शिखाया वलच्
Operational rule vidhi
The affix वलच् comes after the word शिखा in the above four senses.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Left context शिखाया pañcamī · ekavacanaSubstitute / term वल prathamā · ekavacana
- Left context Pañcamī (5th case): "after X", the operation applies to what follows (1.1.67 तस्मादित्युत्तरस्य). Also used for limits and sources.
- Substitute / term Prathamā (1st case): in operational rules, the substitute or the thing introduced; in definitions, the term or its referent.
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शिखाया वलच्
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Commentary
The affix वलच् comes after the word शिखा in the above four senses.
Thus शिखावलम् 'the city Sikha-vala' lit. 'crested as a peacock'. The word शिखा takes वलच् by 5.2.111, the affix having the same force as मतुप् 5.2.94, ('whose it is' or 'in whom it is'). That वलच् should be distinguished from the present, in as much as, the latter is employed in making names of locality, not so the affix taught in Book V.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.