6.1.208
रिक्ते विभाषा
Operational rule vidhi
The word रिक्त may have optionally the acute on the first syllable.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Right context रिक्ते saptamī · ekavacanaSubstitute / term prathamā · ekavacana
- 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").
- Substitute / term Prathamā (1st case): in operational rules, the substitute or the thing introduced; in definitions, the term or its referent.
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Full reading
रिक्ते
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Commentary
The word रिक्त may have optionally the acute on the first syllable.
Thus रि꣡क्तः or रिक्तः꣡ ॥ This debars 6.1.204 and 6.1.205.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.