6.2.186
अपाच्च
Operational rule vidhi
The word मुख has acute accent (उदात्त) on the final after the preposition अप्.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Left context अपात् pañcamī · ekavacanaIndeclinable च avyaya
- Left context Pañcamī (5th case): "after X", the operation applies to what follows (1.1.67 तस्मादित्युत्तरस्य). Also used for limits and sources.
- Indeclinable An avyaya such as च "and", वा "optionally", न "not".
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Full reading
अपात् च
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Commentary
The word मुख has acute accent (उदात्त) on the final after the preposition अप्।
Thus अपमुख꣡म्, अपमुखः꣡ ॥ The compound is in one case Avyayibhava also, when rule 6.2.33 will be superseded. The separation of this from the last sutra, is for the sake of the subsequent aphorism, in which the anuvritti of अप only goes.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.