5.3.53
भूतपूर्वे चरट्
Operational rule vidhi
The affix चर (with the feminine in ङीप्) comes after a प्रातिपदिक (Nominal Stem), the word retaining its detonation when the meaning is 'this had been before'.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Right context भूतपूर्वे saptamī · ekavacanaSubstitute / term चरट् 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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Full reading
भूतपूर्वे चरट्
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Commentary
The affix चर (with the feminine in ङीप्) comes after a प्रातिपदिक (Nominal Stem), the word retaining its detonation when the meaning is 'this had been before'.
The word भूतपूर्व is a compound of पूर्व and भूतः the compounding being by सुप्सुपा, and denotes something done in a past time. Thus आढ्यो भतपूर्वः = आढ्यचरः 'once opulent'. सुकुमारचरः ॥ The ट् indicates that the feminine will be in ङीप्; as, आढ्यचरी ॥ The च् is not इत् in चरट् though required by (1.3. 7). This proves that चुटु rule is anitya. The sutra 5.2.18 might have been read after this, with the saving of the word भूतपूर्वः, but then खञ् would have debarred चरट् which is, however, not intended.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.