4.4.33
रक्षति
Operational rule vidhi
The affix ठक् comes after a word in the Accusative -2nd case in construction when the sense is 'he aids or protects that'.
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Commentary
The affix ठक् comes after a word in the Accusative -2nd case in construction when the sense is 'he aids or protects that'.
Thus समाजं रक्षति = सामाजिकः 'a spectator', lit. 'who aids an assembly by his presence'. So also सांनिवेशिकः ॥
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.