समुद्राभ्राद्घः

Operational rule vidhi

The affix घ comes in the sense of 'what stays there' after the words 1. समुद्र and 2. अभ्र , in the छन्दस् (Vedas).

Word by word (padaccheda)

Left context समुद्र- अभ्रात् pañcamī · ekavacanaSubstitute / term 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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Full reading

समुद्र-अभ्रात्

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Commentary

The affix घ comes in the sense of 'what stays there' after the words 1. समुद्र and 2. अभ्र , in the छन्दस् (Vedas).
This debars यत् ॥ Thus समुद्रियः and अभ्रियः, as in समुद्रिया अप्सरसो मनीषिणम् and नानदतो अभ्रियस्येव घोषाः ॥ The word 'abhra' being a word of fewer syllables than 'samudra' ought to have come first. Its coming as a second member is an irregularity.

Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.