4.3.154
प्राणिरजतादिभ्योऽञ्
Operational rule vidhi
The affix अञ् comes in the sense of 'product or part' after the words expressing living beings and after रजत etc.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Left context प्राणि- रजत- आदिभ्यः pañcamī · bahuvacanaSubstitute / term अ 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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Commentary
The affix अञ् comes in the sense of 'product or part' after the words expressing living beings and after रजत etc.
This debars अण् &c. The affix अञ् has been ordained to come after those words that have anudatta in the beginning. This sutra applies to words other than those having anudatta in the beginning.
Thus:-- कापोतम् , मायूरम्, तैत्तिरम्; राजतम्, सैसम्; लौहम्, &c. In the class रजतादि those words like रजत, कण्टकार &c, which have anudatta on the beginning and would have taken अञ् by 4.3.140, have been enumerated to prevent the application of मयट् to them.
1 रजत, 2 सीस, 3 लोह, 4 उदुम्बर, 5 नीप (नीच, नील), 6 दारु, 7 रोहीतक (रोहितक), 8 विभीतक, 9 पीतदारु (कपीत, दारु), 10 तीव्रदारु, 11 त्रिकण्टक, 12 कण्टकार.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.