5.1.62
त्रिंशच्चत्वारिंशतोर्ब्राह्मणे संज्ञायां डण्
Operational rule vidhi
The affix अञ् (+/- अ) comes in the sense of 'this is its measure' after the words 1. त्रिंशत् and 2. चत्वारिशत् when it is a Name denoting a ब्राहमण-book.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Target त्रिंशत्- चत्वारिंशतोः ṣaṣṭhī · dvivacanaRight context ब्राह्मणे saptamī · ekavacanaRight context संज्ञायाम् saptamī · ekavacanaSubstitute / term डण् prathamā · ekavacana
- Target Ṣaṣṭhī (6th case): names what gets replaced, "in place of X" (1.1.49 षष्ठी स्थानेयोगा).
- 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").
- 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
त्रिंशत्-
Pāṇini leaves out words that carry over from earlier sūtras. Expand to see the rule as a reader actually understands it.
त्रिंशत्-
Replace triṃśat-catvāriṃśatoḥ with ḍaṇ when brāhmaṇe saṃjñāyām follows. Inherited words (anuvṛtti) may add further conditions.
Commentary
The affix अञ् (+/- अ) comes in the sense of 'this is its measure' after the words 1. त्रिंशत् and 2. चत्वारिशत् when it is a Name denoting a ब्राहमण-book.
The word वर्ग does not govern this sutra. The indicatory ड् causes the elision of the last vowel with the consonant that follows it 6.4.143. The force of the locative case in ब्राह्मणे is that of अभिधेय and not विषय, i. e. when the word means a Brahmana itself. Had the force been that of विषय, it would have meant, 'in the Brahmana literature'. As त्रिंशदध्यायाः परिमाणमेषां ब्राह्मणानां = त्रैंशानि ब्राह्मणानि 'The Brahmana containing thirty Adhyayas'. So चत्वारिंशानि ब्राह्मणानि ॥ These being the names of certain Brahmanas.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.