8.1.27

तिङो गोत्रादीनि कुत्सनाभीक्ष्ण्ययोः

Operational rule vidhi

The words गोत्र etc. become unaccented after a finite verb when a contempt or a repetition in intended.

Word by word (padaccheda)

Left context pañcamī · ekavacanaSubstitute / term गोत्रादीनि prathamā · bahuvacanaRight context कुत्सनाभीक्ष्ण्ययोः saptamī · dvivacana
  • Left context Pañcamī (5th case): "after X", the operation applies to what follows (1.1.67 तस्मादित्युत्तरस्य). Also used for limits and sources.
  • 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

गोत्रादीनि कुत्सनाभीक्ष्ण्ययोः

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Commentary

The words गोत्र etc. become unaccented after a finite verb when a contempt or a repetition in intended.
Thus पचति गो॒त्र॒म्, जल्पति गो॒त्र॒म्, when contempt is meant.

Here पचति गोत्रं means 'he proclaims his Gotra &c, so that he may get food &c'. पचति is from the root पचि व्यक्तिकरणे 'to make evident' (Bhuadi 184). Similarly जल्पति गोत्रम् "he repeatedly utters, his descent &c, in order to get married &c". Where contempt is not meant, it has the force of repetition, i.e. he repeatedly utters his Gotra as one is bound to do, in marriage-rites &c. And पचति पचति गो॒त्र॒म्, जल्पति जल्पति गो॒त्र॒म् when repetition or intensity is denoted. Similarly पचति ब्रुवम्, पचति पचति ब्रुवम् ॥ The word ब्रुवं is a noun derived from the root ब्रू by the affix कन्, the वच् substitution for ब्रू has not taken place, as an anomaly.

1 गोत्र, 2 ब्रुव, 3 प्रवचन, 4 प्रहसन, 5 प्रकथन, 6 प्रत्ययन, 7 प्रपञ्च, 8 प्राय, 9 न्याय, 10 प्रचक्षण, 11 विचक्षण, 12 अवचक्षण, 13 स्वाध्याय, 14 भूयिष्ठ, 15 वा नाम (नाम वा) 16 प्रदशन, 17 प्रयजन.

The word नाम optionally becomes anudatta : in the alternative, it is first-acute. Thus पचति ना॒म॒ or पचति ना꣡म ॥

Why do we say 'after a finite verb'? Observe कुत्सितं गोत्रम् ॥

Why do we say "Gotra and the rest"? Observe पचति पापम् ॥ Here पापं is an adverb.

Why do we say 'when contempt or repetition is meant'? Observe खनति गोत्रं समेत्य कूपं ॥ "He digs a well having assembled the Gotra".

The words 'contempt and repetition' in the text qualify the whole sentence or sutra, and not the word गोत्रादि nor the word अनुदात्त understood. For we find that wherever the word गोत्रादि is used in this Chapter, it always implies the sense of 'contempt or repetition'. Thus the word गोत्रादि is used in 8.1.57 and there also the sense is of contempt and repetition.

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

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