6.2.54
ईषदन्यतरस्याम्
Operational rule vidhi
The word ईषत् when the first member of a compound may optionally preserve its original accent.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Indeclinable ईषत् avyayaRight context अन्यतरस्याम् 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
ईषत् अन्यतरस्याम्
Pāṇini leaves out words that carry over from earlier sūtras. Expand to see the rule as a reader actually understands it.
Commentary
The word ईषत् when the first member of a compound may optionally preserve its original accent.
Thus ईष꣡त्कडारः or ईषत्कडारः꣡, ईष꣡त्पिङ्गलः or ईषत्पिङ्गलः꣡ ॥ ईष꣡त् has acute on the final. But in ईषद्भेदः &c, the Krit-accent will necessarily take place 6.2.139; no option being allowed; because the compounds to which the present rule applies are, on the maxim of pratipadokta, those formed by ईषत् with non-Krit words under 2.2.7.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.