4.4.110
भवे छन्दसि
Operational rule vidhi
The affix यत् comes in the sense of 'what stays here' in the छन्दस् (Vedas) when in the Locative -7th case in construction.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Right context भवे saptamī · ekavacanaRight context छन्दसि saptamī · ekavacana
- Right context Saptamī (7th case): "when X follows", the operation applies to what precedes (1.1.66 तस्मिन्निति निर्दिष्टे पूर्वस्य). Also a condition or domain ("in the sense of").
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भवे छन्दसि
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Commentary
The affix यत् comes in the sense of 'what stays here' in the छन्दस् (Vedas) when in the Locative -7th case in construction.
This debars अण्, घ &c 4.3.53. Those affixes also are employed in the alternative, there being much latitude of grammatical rules in the Vedas. Thus the words मेघ्यः꣡ and विदुत्य॑ in the following hymn of the Yajur Veda (16. V. 38): नमा॒ मेघ्या॑य च विदुत्या॒य च॒ ॥ All the sutras henceforward up to the end of the chapter, are Vedic sutras, the word छन्दसि being understood in them all. The word भवे governs all the sutras up to 4.4.118.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.