5.3.54
षष्ठ्या रूप्य च
Operational rule vidhi
After a प्रातिपदिक (Nominal Stem) ending in the Genitive 6th-Case comes the affix रूप्य and also चरट् in the sense of 'having belonged formerly to somebody'.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Left context षष्ठ्या pañcamī · ekavacanaWord रूप्य Indeclinable च avyaya
- Left context Pañcamī (5th case): "after X", the operation applies to what follows (1.1.67 तस्मादित्युत्तरस्य). Also used for limits and sources.
- Word Case not marked in the source data.
- Indeclinable An avyaya such as च "and", वा "optionally", न "not".
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Full reading
षष्ठ्या रूप्य च
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Commentary
After a प्रातिपदिक (Nominal Stem) ending in the Genitive 6th-Case comes the affix रूप्य and also चरट् in the sense of 'having belonged formerly to somebody'.
The word भूतपूर्व here qualifies the sense of the affix, and not the sense of the base, as it in the last sutra. Thus देवदत्तस्य भूतपूर्वो गौः = देवदत्तरूप्यः 'the cow that formerly belonged to Devadatta'. Similarly देवदत्तचरः ॥
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.