4.4.88
मूलमस्याबर्हि
Operational rule vidhi
The affix यत् comes in the sense of 'whose root is eradicated' after the word मूल being in the Nominative 1st-Case in construction.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Substitute / term मूलम् prathamā · ekavacanaTarget अस्य ṣaṣṭhī · ekavacanaSubstitute / term आबर्हि prathamā · ekavacana
- Substitute / term Prathamā (1st case): in operational rules, the substitute or the thing introduced; in definitions, the term or its referent.
- Target Ṣaṣṭhī (6th case): names what gets replaced, "in place of X" (1.1.49 षष्ठी स्थानेयोगा).
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Full reading
मूलम् अस्य आबर्हि
Pāṇini leaves out words that carry over from earlier sūtras. Expand to see the rule as a reader actually understands it.
अस्य → मूलम् आबर्हि
Replace asya with mūlam ābarhi. Inherited words (anuvṛtti) may add further conditions.
Commentary
The affix यत् comes in the sense of 'whose root is eradicated' after the word मूल being in the Nominative 1st-Case in construction.
The word आबर्हि from वृहू 'to up root,' means 'uprooting,' = उत्पाटनं ॥ मूलमेषामाबर्हि = मू꣡ल्याः 'a kind of pulse' e. g. माषा । मुद्गाः ॥ These cereals cannot be harvested without uprooting the whole plant. According to Padamanjari the word should be आवर्हि and not आबर्हि, with a व and not ब ॥
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.