7.4.62

कुहोश्चुः

Operational rule vidhi

The कवर्गीय letter and the हकार of an अभ्यास are converted to an appropriate चवर्गीय letter.

Word by word (padaccheda)

Target कुहोः ṣaṣṭhī · dvivacanaSubstitute / term चुः prathamā · ekavacana
  • Target Ṣaṣṭhī (6th case): names what gets replaced, "in place of X" (1.1.49 षष्ठी स्थानेयोगा).
  • 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

कुहोः चुः

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As a rewrite rule (sketch from case endings)
कुहोः → चुः

Replace kuhoḥ with cuḥ. Inherited words (anuvṛtti) may add further conditions.

Commentary

For the guttural and ह् of a reduplicate there is substituted a Platal.
As चकार, पखान, जगाम, जघान, जहार, जिहीर्षति, जहौ ॥

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

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