6.1.150
विष्किरः शकुनौ वा
Operational rule vidhi
The word विषिकर is formed with सुट् optionally when denoting a kind of bird, the other form being विकार.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Substitute / term विष्किरः prathamā · ekavacanaRight context शकुनौ saptamī · ekavacanaIndeclinable वा avyaya
- Substitute / term Prathamā (1st case): in operational rules, the substitute or the thing introduced; in definitions, the term or its referent.
- 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").
- Indeclinable An avyaya such as च "and", वा "optionally", न "not".
Full reading
विष्किरः शकुनौ वा
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Commentary
The word विषिकर is formed with सुट् optionally when denoting a kind of bird, the other form being विकार।
Verse
सर्वे शकुनयो भक्ष्या विष्किराः कुक्कुटादृते ।
This word is formed by adding the affix क 3.1.135 to कृ with the preposition वि and the augment सुट् ॥ The word विकिर also refers to birds only, a kind of cock. The phrase शकुनिर्विकिरा वा is added from the Vartika and is no part of the original sutra. Thus सर्वे शकुनयो भक्ष्या विष्किराः कुक्कुटादृत ॥ Though the sutra विष्किरोवाशकुनौ would have given the optional form विकिर, the specific mention of this form in the sutra indicates that विकिर always means 'bird' and nothing else. Otherwise विकिर would have referred to some thing other than a bird.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.