तन्त्रादचिरापहृते

Operational rule vidhi

The affix कन् comes in the sense of taken off there from not long ago or shortly before' after the word तन्त्र 'a loom'.

Word by word (padaccheda)

Left context तन्त्रात् pañcamī · ekavacanaRight context अचिर- अपहृते saptamī · ekavacana

Left context Pañcamī (5th case): "after X", the operation applies to what follows (1.1.67 तस्मादित्युत्तरस्य). Also used for limits and sources.
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").

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तन्त्रात् अचिर-अपहृते

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Commentary

The affix कन् comes in the sense of taken off there from not long ago or shortly before' after the word तन्त्र 'a loom'.
The word तन्त्र must be in the fifth case in construction, by the very fact of its being so employed in the sutra. The word अचिर means 'short time, not long' अपहृत means "taken off". Thus तन्त्रादचिरापहृतः = तन्त्रकः 'a cloth just taken off the loom' i. e. an unbleached cloth. As तन्त्रकः पटः, तन्त्रकः प्रावारः 'a new mantle' = प्रत्ययः or नवः ॥

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