6.2.85
घोषादिषु च
Operational rule vidhi
The first member has acute accent (उदात्त) on the first syllable when followed by घोषा etc.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Right context घोषादिषु saptamī · bahuvacanaRight context च 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
घोषादिषु च
Pāṇini leaves out words that carry over from earlier sūtras. Expand to see the rule as a reader actually understands it.
Commentary
The first member has acute accent (उदात्त) on the first syllable when followed by घोषा etc.
Thus दा꣡क्षिघोषः, दा꣡क्षिकटः, दा꣡क्षिपल्वलः, दा꣡क्षिबदरी, दा꣡क्षिवल्लभः, दा꣡क्षिह्रदः, दा꣡क्षिपिङ्गलः, दा꣡क्षिपिशङ्गः, दा꣡क्षिमाला, दा꣡क्षिरक्षा, दा꣡क्षिशाला, or (रक्षः or शालः), दा꣡क्षिशिल्पी, दा꣡क्ष्यश्वथः, दा꣡क्षिशाल्मली, कु꣡न्दतृणम्, आ꣡श्रममुनिः, दा꣡क्षिपुंसा, दा꣡क्षिकूटः ॥
Of the above, those which denote places of habitation, there the first members though denoting inhabitants get the acute accent. Some do not read the anuvritti of अनिवसन्तः in this aphorism, others however read it.
1 घोष, 2 कट (घट), 3 वल्लभ (पल्वल), 4 ह्रद, 5 बदरी (बदर), 6 पिङ्गल, 7 पिशङ्ग, 8 माला, 9 रक्षा (रक्षः), 10 शाला (शालः), 11 कूट, 12 शाल्मली, 13 अश्वत्थ, 14 तृण, 15 शिल्पी, 16 मुनि, 17 प्रेक्षा (प्रेक्षाकू; पुंसा) ॥
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.