6.2.59
राजा च
Operational rule vidhi
The word राजन् optionally retains its original accent in a कर्मधारय समास before the words ब्राह्मण and कुमार.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Substitute / term राजा prathamā · ekavacanaIndeclinable च avyaya
- Substitute / term Prathamā (1st case): in operational rules, the substitute or the thing introduced; in definitions, the term or its referent.
- Indeclinable An avyaya such as च "and", वा "optionally", न "not".
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राजा च
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Commentary
The word राजन् optionally retains its original accent in a कर्मधारय समास before the words ब्राह्मण and कुमार।
Thus रा꣡जब्राह्मणः or राजब्राह्मणा꣡, रा꣡जकुमारः or राजकुमारः꣡ ॥ The word राजन् is formed by the affix कनिन् added to राज् (Unadi I.156). But राज्ञो ब्राह्मण = राजब्राह्मणः where the compound is not Karmadharaya. The making of this a separate aphorism is for the purpose of preventing the yathasankhya rule and also for the sake of the subsequent sutra into which the anuvritti of राजन् runs and not of आर्य ॥
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.