6.2.20
वा भुवनम्
Operational rule vidhi
The word भुवन may optionally keep its accent in a तत्-पुरुष समास before the word पति denoting 'master' or 'lord'.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Indeclinable वा avyayaSubstitute / term भुवनम् prathamā · ekavacana
- Indeclinable An avyaya such as च "and", वा "optionally", न "not".
- 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
वा भुवनम्
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Commentary
The word भुवन may optionally keep its accent in a तत्-पुरुष समास before the word पति denoting 'master' or 'lord'.
The word भुवन is formed by क्युन् (Unadi. II.80), and has acute on the first 6.1.197. Though Sutra II.80 (Unadi) ordains क्युन् after भू in the Vedas only, yet on the theory of बहुल 3.1.3, it comes in the secular literature also, as भुवनपतिरादित्यः ॥
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.