5.3.23
प्रकारवचने थाल्
Operational rule vidhi
The affix थाल् comes after the words किम् etc. -- किंसर्वनामबहुभ्योऽद्व्यादिभ्यः (5.3.2) when we speak of a kind or manner of being.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Right context प्रकारवचने saptamī · ekavacanaSubstitute / term था prathamā · ekavacana
- 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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प्रकारवचने थाल्
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Commentary
The affix थाल् comes after the words किम् etc. -- किंसर्वनामबहुभ्योऽद्व्यादिभ्यः 5.3.2 when we speak of a kind or manner of being.
The sutra 5.3.2, is to be read into this. The anuvritti of सप्तम्याः and काले ceases. The word प्रकार means the differentiating quality distinguishing a species among the genus : it means 'sort', 'kind', 'mode', 'manner' &c. Thus तेन प्रकारेण = तथा 'so, in that manner'. Similarly यथा, सर्वथा ॥ The affix जातीयर् taught in 5.3.69 has also the same force, with this difference that jatiyar applies to words which denote things possessing such a quality (प्रकारयाच्च, while thal denotes mode itself. Therefore, one does not debar the other, so that we have forms like, तथाजातीयः and यथाजातीयः ॥
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.