5.4.154
शेषाद्विभाषा
Operational rule vidhi
After all other बहुव्रीहि समास not covered by the foregoing rules, may optionally be added the affix कप्.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Left context शेषात् pañcamī · ekavacanaSubstitute / term prathamā · ekavacana
- Left context Pañcamī (5th case): "after X", the operation applies to what follows (1.1.67 तस्मादित्युत्तरस्य). Also used for limits and sources.
- 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
शेषात्
Pāṇini leaves out words that carry over from earlier sūtras. Expand to see the rule as a reader actually understands it.
Commentary
After all other बहुव्रीहि समास not covered by the foregoing rules, may optionally be added the affix कप्।
Thus बहुखट्वकः or बहुखट्वाकः or बहुखट्वः, बहुमालकः or बहुमालाकः or बहुमालः, बहुवीणकः or बहुवीणः or बहुवीणाकः &c. The word शेष denotes all those Bahuvrihi about which no special rule has been given above. How do you explain the forms अनृक्कं साम, बह्वृक्कं सूक्तं, in which the affix कप् is added, though these words are governed by the general rule 5.4.74, and ought to have taken the samasanta affix अ? The affix अ is added to ऋक् when the compound has a special meaning such as अनृचः means 'a boy', बह्वृचः 'a charana'.
Why do we say "after the rest"? Observe प्रियपथः, प्रियधुरः ॥
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.