भञ्जेश्च चिणि

Operational rule vidhi

The nasal may be optionally elided in भञ्ज before the 3rd person passive of the Aorist in चिण् (ई).

Word by word (padaccheda)

Target भञ्जेः ṣaṣṭhī · ekavacanaIndeclinable च avyayaRight context चिणि saptamī · ekavacana

Target Ṣaṣṭhī (6th case): names what gets replaced, "in place of X" (1.1.49 षष्ठी स्थानेयोगा).
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").

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भञ्जेः च चिणि

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Commentary

The nasal may be optionally elided in भञ्ज before the 3rd person passive of the Aorist in चिण् (ई).
Thus अभाजि or अभञ्जि ॥ This is an aprapta vibhasha, and teaches for the first time the elision of न in a certain contingency.

Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.