6.2.171
वा जाते
Operational rule vidhi
After a species (with the exception of a word for 'garment or covering') or a time-denoting word or after सुख etc. in a बहुव्रीहि समास the word जात has optionally acute accent (उदात्त) on the final.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Indeclinable वा avyayaRight context जाते saptamī · ekavacana
- 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").
Full reading
वा जाते
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Commentary
After a species (with the exception of a word for 'garment or covering') or a time-denoting word or after सुख etc. in a बहुव्रीहि समास the word जात has optionally acute accent (उदात्त) on the final.
Thus दन्तजातः꣡ or द꣡न्तजातः, स्तनजातः꣡ or स्त꣡नजातः, मासजातः꣡ or मा꣡सजातः, संवत्सरजातः꣡ or संवत्सर꣡जातः; सुखजातः꣡ or सुखजातः, दुःखजातः꣡ or दुःख꣡जातः &c. The words दन्त and स्तन are first-acute by Phit II.6; मास is first-acute by Phit II.15, संवत्सर is finally-acute by Phit I.7. बहिष्ठवत्सरति शत्थान्ताम् "words ending in बहिष्ठ, वत्स, ति, शत् and थ are finally acute", as बहिष्ठः꣡, संवत्सरः꣡, सप्ततिः꣡, त्रिंश꣡त्, गूथ꣡म् ॥ The words सुख and दुःख are end-acute by Phit I.6.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.