6.1.46

न व्यो लिटि

Operational rule vidhi

There is not the substitution of आ for the diphthong of the root व्ये when the affixes of the Perfect follow.

Word by word (padaccheda)

Indeclinable न avyayaTarget व्यः ṣaṣṭhī · ekavacanaRight context लिटि saptamī · ekavacana
  • 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).
  • 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

न व्यः लिटि

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Commentary

There is not the substitution of आ for the diphthong of the root व्ये when the affixes of the Perfect follow.
Thus संविव्याय, संविष्ययिथ ॥ The reduplicate of the Perfect is vocalised here by (VI.I.I7). The Vriddhi in संविव्याय takes place by 7.2.115 before the णित् affix णल् ॥

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

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