5.1.15
चर्मणोऽञ्
Operational rule vidhi
The affix अञ् (+/- अ) comes, in the sense of a primitive serviceable for a product after a word expressing the product of leather.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Target चर्मणः ṣaṣṭhī · ekavacanaSubstitute / term अ prathamā · ekavacana
- Target Ṣaṣṭhī (6th case): names what gets replaced, "in place of X" (1.1.49 षष्ठी स्थानेयोगा).
- 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
चर्मणः अञ्
Pāṇini leaves out words that carry over from earlier sūtras. Expand to see the rule as a reader actually understands it.
चर्मणः → अञ्
Replace carmaṇaḥ with añ. Inherited words (anuvṛtti) may add further conditions.
Commentary
The affix अञ् (+/- अ) comes, in the sense of a primitive serviceable for a product after a word expressing the product of leather.
The word चर्मणः in the aphorism is in the genitive case. This अञ् debars छ. Thus वार्द्ध्रं चर्म and वारत्रं चर्म a leather serviceable for making a 'vardhra' and 'varata' i.e. a leather thong.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.