6.1.175

नोङ्धात्वोः

Operational rule vidhi

But not so, when the vowel is of the feminine affix ऊ (4.1.66), or the final of a root.

Word by word (padaccheda)

Indeclinable नः avyayaTarget ऊङ्- धात्वोः ṣaṣṭhī · dvivacana
  • Indeclinable An avyaya such as च "and", वा "optionally", न "not".
  • Target Ṣaṣṭhī (6th case): names what gets replaced, "in place of X" (1.1.49 षष्ठी स्थानेयोगा).

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नः ऊङ्-धात्वोः

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Commentary

But not so, when the vowel is of the feminine affix ऊ 4.1.66, or the final of a root.
After the semi-vowel substitutes of the udatta ऊ 4.1.66 or of the udatta final vowels of the root, when preceded by a consonant, the weak case-endings beginning with a vowel do not take the acute accent. Thus ब्रह्मब॒न्ध्वा॑, ब्रह्मब॒न्ध्वे॑, धीरब॒न्ध्वा॑, धीरब॒न्ध्वे॑ from धीरबन्धू꣡, which has acute accent ऊ, because ऊ꣡ञ् is udatta 3.1.3, and the ekadesa of it, when it combines with the preceding vowel is also udatta 8.2.5. The व substituted for ऊ before the ending आ, is a semi-vowel substitute of an udatta (उदात्तयण्) the affix after it would have become udatta by the last sutra, but not being so, the general rule 8.2.4 applies and makes it svarita. Let us take an example of a semi-vowel substitute of the vowel of a root (धातु - यण्):- स॒कृल्ल्वा॑, सकृल्ल्वे॑; ख॒लप्वे॑ from सकृल्लू꣡, खलपू꣡ formed by क्विप् affix, the second member of the compound retaining its original accent, namely, the oxytone, the semi-vowel being substituted by 6.4.83 before the vowel case-endings.

Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.

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