7.3.91
गुणोऽपृक्ते
Operational rule vidhi
Before a पित् सार्वधातुक affix which is a single consonant, गुण is substituted for the final of ऊर्णु .
Word by word (padaccheda)
Substitute / term prathamā · ekavacanaRight context saptamī · ekavacana
- 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
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Commentary
Before a पित् सार्वधातुक affix which is a single consonant, गुण is substituted for the final of ऊर्णु ।
As प्रोर्णोत्, प्रौर्णोः ॥ Though the anuvritti of हलि was understood in this sutra from the last aphorism, the employment of the term अपृक्त implies the existence of the following maxim:- यस्मिन् विधिस्तदादावल् ग्रहणे "when a term which denotes a letter is exhibited in a rule, in the form of a Locative case, and qualifies something else which likewise stands in the Locative case, that which is qualified by it must be regarded as beginning with the letter which is denoted by the term in question, and not as ending with it".
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.