6.2.28
पूगेष्वन्यतरस्याम्
Operational rule vidhi
The first syllable of कुमार is optionally acutely accented (उदात्त) when the second member is a word denoting 'the name of a horde'.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Right context पूगेषु saptamī · bahuvacanaRight context अन्यतरस्याम् saptamī · ekavacana
- 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
पूगेषु अन्यतरस्याम्
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Commentary
The first syllable of कुमार is optionally acutely accented (उदात्त) when the second member is a word denoting 'the name of a horde'.
The word पूग means 'a multitude, a collection &c'. See 5.3.112 also. Thus कु꣡मारचातकाः or कुमार꣡चातका 6.2.26, or कुमारचातकाः꣡ ॥ So also कु꣡मारलोहध्वजाः or कुमार꣡लोहध्वजाः or कुमारलोहध्वजाः꣡ ॥ So also with कु꣡मार꣡बलाहकाः꣡, कु꣡मार꣡जीमूतकाः꣡ ॥ Here चातक &c, are horde-names; and the affix ञ्य is added to them by 5.3.112: which is elided in the Plural by 2.4.62. In the above examples when the word 'Kumara' is not accented on the first syllable, it gets accent on the last by 6.2.26, when the प्रतिपदोक्त maxim is not applied : when that maxim is applied, the final of the compound takes the accent by the general rule 6.1.223.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.