5.4.15
अणिनुणः
Operational rule vidhi
The affix अण् (अ) comes without changing the sense, after a stem ending in the affix इणुन्.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Substitute / term अ prathamā · ekavacanaLeft context इनुणः pañcamī · ekavacana
- Substitute / term Prathamā (1st case): in operational rules, the substitute or the thing introduced; in definitions, the term or its referent.
- Left context Pañcamī (5th case): "after X", the operation applies to what follows (1.1.67 तस्मादित्युत्तरस्य). Also used for limits and sources.
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Full reading
अण् इनुणः
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Commentary
The affix अण् (अ) comes without changing the sense, after a stem ending in the affix इणुन्।
By 3.3.44, the affix इनुण् is added to a root to express a condition resulting from a universal co-operation of the action denoted by the root. But a word formed by इनुण् is after all an imaginary word, it requires the further addition of this affx अण् to make it a complete word. In fact, all svartha affixes generally complete the not fully developed word. Thus सांराविणम् वर्त्तते, सांकूटिनम् ॥
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.