6.3.74
तस्मान्नुडचि
Operational rule vidhi
After the above न-elided of the Negative Particle नञ् (i.e. after अ) is added the augment नुट् to a word beginning with a vowel.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Left context तस्मात् pañcamī · ekavacanaSubstitute / term नुट् prathamā · ekavacanaRight context saptamī · ekavacana
- Left context Pañcamī (5th case): "after X", the operation applies to what follows (1.1.67 तस्मादित्युत्तरस्य). Also used for limits and sources.
- Substitute / term Prathamā (1st case): in operational rules, the substitute or the thing introduced; in definitions, the term or its referent.
- 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
तस्मात् नुट्
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Commentary
After the above न-elided of the Negative Particle नञ् (i.e. after अ) is added the augment नुट् to a word beginning with a vowel.
Thus अनजः, अनश्वः, अनुष्ट्रः ॥ Why do we use तस्मात् "after such a नञ्"? Otherwise नुट् would have been the augment of नञ्, and not of the subsequent word for: the sutra would have read thus नुडाचि ॥ Adding नुट् to नञ् or rather to अ, we have अन् (granting that नुट् is not to be added before अ but after it, against 1.1.46). Now अन् + अजः will be अन्रजः and not अनजः for 8.3.32 will cause the doubling of the final न of अन् ॥ Hence to prevent this contingency, नुट् is ordained with regard to the second member and not with regard to अ or नञ् ॥
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.