7.4.39
कव्यध्वरपृतनस्यर्चि लोपः
Operational rule vidhi
In the ऋग् वेद the final of 1. कवि 2. अध्वर and 3. पृतना is dropped before the Denominative affix क्यच् .
Word by word (padaccheda)
Target कव्यध्वरपृतनस्य ṣaṣṭhī · ekavacanaRight context ऋचि saptamī · ekavacanaSubstitute / term prathamā · ekavacana
- Target Ṣaṣṭhī (6th case): names what gets replaced, "in place of X" (1.1.49 षष्ठी स्थानेयोगा).
- 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").
- Substitute / term Prathamā (1st case): in operational rules, the substitute or the thing introduced; in definitions, the term or its referent.
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Full reading
कव्यध्वरपृतनस्य ऋचि
Pāṇini leaves out words that carry over from earlier sūtras. Expand to see the rule as a reader actually understands it.
कव्यध्वरपृतनस्य → / ऋचि
Replace kavyadhvarapṛtanasya with lopaḥ when ṛci follows. Inherited words (anuvṛtti) may add further conditions.
Commentary
In the ऋग् वेद the final of 1. कवि 2. अध्वर and 3. पृतना is dropped before the Denominative affix क्यच् ।
As कव्यन्तः सुमनसः (not in the Rig Veda), अध्वर्यन्तः (not in this case in the Rig Veda), पृतन्यन्तस्तिष्ठन्ति (not in this connection in the Rig. Veda). The examples given above are of Kasika : according to Pro. Bohtlingk none of them are from the Rig Veda. The following are given by Bhattoji Dikshita in his Siddhanta Kaumudi: स पूर्वया निविदा कव्यतायोः (Rig I.96.2). अध्वर्युं वा मधुपाणिम् (Rig X. 41.3), दमयन्तं पृतन्युम् ॥
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.