7.3.97
बहुलं छन्दसि
Operational rule vidhi
In the context of vedas - a सार्वधातुक प्रत्यय which contains only one हल् letter (and no अच् letter) might or might not get an 'ईट्' आगम when it follows either the अस् धातु or the सिच्-प्रत्यय.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Substitute / term बहुलम् prathamā · ekavacanaRight context छन्दसि 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").
Dotted words are technical terms, dashed ones pratyāhāras (names for classes of sounds or affixes). Hover or tap one to see its card.
Full reading
बहुलम् छन्दसि
Pāṇini leaves out words that carry over from earlier sūtras. Expand to see the rule as a reader actually understands it.
Commentary
In the छन्दस् (Vedas), a single consonantal सार्वधातुक affix gets diversely the augment after अस् (अस्ति) and after the Aorist character सिच् ।
As आप एवेदं सालल सवमाः ॥ Here आः is used instead of आसीत्; but also अहरेवासान्न रात्रिः (See Maitr S. I.5.12). So also with s-Aorist, as गोभिरक्षाः (Rig IX. 107.9), प्रत्यञ्चमत्साः (Rig X. 28.4). And अभैषीर्मा पुत्रक, the आट् is not elided though मा is added 6.4.75. अक्षाः and अत्साः are examples of सिच् without इट्. Compare 8.2.73.
The word आः is the लङ् of अस्, there is added तिप्, then शप् is elided, then स् is changed to रु, and it is turned to visarjaniya. The words अक्षाः and अत्साः are derived from the roots क्षर् (सञ्चलने) and त्सर् (छद्मगतौ), in the Aorist, the तिप् is elided 6.1.68, the सिच् is elided by 8.2.24, and the इ of the roots is changed to visarga. The augment इट् is not added as a Vedic irregularity.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.