6.1.181
विभाषा भाषायाम्
Operational rule vidhi
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Word by word (padaccheda)
Substitute / term prathamā · ekavacanaRight context भाषायाम् saptamī · ekavacana
- 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").
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Full reading
भाषायाम्
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Commentary
In the Secular language this is optional.
The झलादि case-affixes coming after the above numerals षट्, त्रि and चतुर् may make the words so formed take the acute on the penultimate optionally, in the spoken ordinary language. Thus पंच꣡भिः or पंचभिः꣡ ॥ In the alternative 6.1.179 applies. So also सप्तभिः or सप्तभिः꣡, तिसृ꣡भिः or तिसृभिः꣡ ॥
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.