5.4.160
निष्प्रवाणिश्च
Operational rule vidhi
The word निष्प्रवाणि is irregularly formed without adding the affix कप् though the last word is a नदी word.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Substitute / term निष्प्रवाणिः prathamā · ekavacanaIndeclinable 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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निष्प्रवाणिः च
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Commentary
The word निष्प्रवाणि is irregularly formed without adding the affix कप् though the last word is a नदी word.
The word प्रवाणी means either प्रीयतेऽस्यां or प्रवयन्ति तया ॥ Here ल्युट् is added to the root वि 'to weave': and denotes the instrument of weaving i. e. 'a shuttle'. निर्गता प्रवाणी अस्य = निष्प्रवाणिः पटः, निष्प्रवाणिः कम्बलः = अपनीतशलाकः "a new unbleached cloth or blanket", from which the shuttle has not yet been extracted, fresh from the loom. The न is changed to ण by 8.4.29.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.