5.4.20
विभाषा बहोर्धाविप्रकृष्टकाले
Operational rule vidhi
The affix धा is optionally added to the numeral बहु to count the repetition of an action occurring in a not distant period of time.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Substitute / term prathamā · ekavacanaLeft context बहोः pañcamī · ekavacanaSubstitute / term धा prathamā · ekavacanaRight context अविप्रकृष्टकाले saptamī · 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.
- Right context Saptamī (7th case): "when X follows", the operation applies to what precedes (1.1.66 तस्मिन्निति निर्दिष्टे पूर्वस्य). Also a condition or domain ("in the sense of").
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Full reading
बहोः धा अविप्रकृष्टकाले
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Commentary
The affix धा is optionally added to the numeral बहु to count the repetition of an action occurring in a not distant period of time.
This debars कृत्वसुच् which comes in the alternative. The word अविप्रकृष्ट "not remote", qualifies क्रियाभ्यावृत्तिः; i. e. when the recurring of the action takes place within a short time, it is अविप्रकृष्टकाल ॥ Thus बहुधा or बहुकृत्व दिवसस्य भुङ्क्ते "he eats many times a day". But when a remote time is denoted then धा does not apply. Thus बहुकृत्वो मासस्य भुङ्क्ते 'he eats many times in a month, not daily, owing to poverty &c.'
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.