5.3.79
घनिलचौ च
Operational rule vidhi
Also the affixes घन् and इलच् come after a word of more than two syllables being the name of a human being when compassion or courtesy joined with compassion is expressed.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Substitute / term घन्- इलचौ prathamā · dvivacanaIndeclinable च avyaya
- Substitute / term Prathamā (1st case): in operational rules, the substitute or the thing introduced; in definitions, the term or its referent.
- Indeclinable An avyaya such as च "and", वा "optionally", न "not".
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घन्-
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Commentary
Also the affixes घन् and इलच् come after a word of more than two syllables being the name of a human being when compassion or courtesy joined with compassion is expressed.
The force of च is that the other affix कन् also comes, as well as ठच् ॥ Thus from देवदत्त we have: देवियः, देविलः, देविकः, देवदत्तकः ॥ So from यज्ञदत्तः—यज्ञिकः, यज्ञिलः यज्ञिकः, यज्ञदत्तकः ॥ 5.3.83.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.