6.3.66
खित्यनव्ययस्य
Operational rule vidhi
A short is always substituted for the final of the first member when the second member is a word formed by an affix having an indicatory ख but not when the first member is an indeclinable.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Right context खिति saptamī · ekavacanaTarget अनव्ययस्य ṣaṣṭhī · 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").
- Target Ṣaṣṭhī (6th case): names what gets replaced, "in place of X" (1.1.49 षष्ठी स्थानेयोगा).
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Full reading
खिति अनव्ययस्य
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Commentary
A short is always substituted for the final of the first member when the second member is a word formed by an affix having an indicatory ख but not when the first member is an indeclinable.
Thus कालिंमन्या, हरिणिंमन्या ॥ The augment मुम् does not prevent the shortening, had it done so, the rule would have been unnecessary. But दोषामन्यमहः, दिवामन्यारात्रिः, where दोषा and दिवा are Indeclinables there is no shortening. The above words are formed by खश् 3.2.83. The phrase anavyayasya indicates by implication that the word खित् here means खिदन्तः, contrary to the maxim enunciated in 6.3.17 उत्तरपदाधिकारे प्रत्ययग्रहणे तदन्तविधिर्नेष्यते ॥ For an Avyaya can never take a खित् affix which are ordained only after dhatus.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.