6.2.148
कारकाद्दत्तश्रुतयोरेवाशिषि
Operational rule vidhi
The final of Part Participles दत्त and श्रुत alone have the acute accent (उदात्त) in a compound denoting a Name and a Benediction, the preceding word being a word standing in close relation to an action (कारक).
Word by word (padaccheda)
Left context pañcamī · ekavacanaTarget दत्त- श्रुतयोः ṣaṣṭhī · dvivacanaIndeclinable एव avyayaRight context आशिषि saptamī · ekavacana
- Left context Pañcamī (5th case): "after X", the operation applies to what follows (1.1.67 तस्मादित्युत्तरस्य). Also used for limits and sources.
- Target Ṣaṣṭhī (6th case): names what gets replaced, "in place of X" (1.1.49 षष्ठी स्थानेयोगा).
- Indeclinable An avyaya such as च "and", वा "optionally", न "not".
- 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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दत्त- श्रुतयोः एव आशिषि
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Commentary
The final of Part Participles दत्त and श्रुत alone have the acute accent (उदात्त) in a compound denoting a Name and a Benediction, the preceding word being a word standing in close relation to an action (कारक)।
Thus देवा एनंदेयासुः = देवदत्तः꣡, विष्णुरेवं श्रूयाद् = विष्णुश्रुतः꣡ ॥
Why do we say "of दत्त and श्रुत"? Observe देवपालितः 6.2.48, which, though a Name, is not governed by 6.2.146, and does not take acute on the final, for the present rule makes a restriction with regard to that rule even. So that where a Participle in क्त is preceded by a karaka, and the compound denotes a benediction and a Name, the accent is not on the final, as required by 6.2.146, but such a word is governed by 6.2.48, unless the Participle be Datta and sruta, when the present rule applies. The word कारक indicates that the rule will not apply when a gati or upapada precedes. Why do we use 'एव (alone)'? So that the restriction should apply to 'karaka', and not to 'Datta' and 'Sruta'. For the words 'Datta' and 'Sruta' will have acute on the final even after a nonkaraka word. As संश्रूतः꣡, विश्रूतः꣡ ॥ Why do we say 'when denoting benediction'? The rule will not apply where benediction is not meant. As देवैः खाता = देवखाता ॥ This rule applies to Datta and Sruta after a karaka-word, only when benediction is meant. It therefore does not apply to देवद꣡त्त 'the name of Arjuna's conch', as आहतोनदति देवद꣡त्तः, which is governed by 6.2.48.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.