8.1.49

आहो उताहो चानन्तरम्

Operational rule vidhi

Also after an immediately preceding आहो and उताहो when these follow, no other word, the verb retains its accent.

Word by word (padaccheda)

Indeclinable आहो avyayaIndeclinable उताहो avyayaIndeclinable च avyayaSubstitute / term अनन्तरम् prathamā · ekavacana
  • Indeclinable An avyaya such as च "and", वा "optionally", न "not".
  • 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

आहो उताहो च अनन्तरम्

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Commentary

Also after an immediately preceding आहो and उताहो when these follow, no other word, the verb retains its accent.
The prohibition of nighata or want of accentuation is understood here, so also there is the anuvritti of अपूर्वं from the last.

Thus आहो or उताहो भुङ्क्ते꣡, उताहो प꣡ठति ॥ Why do we say 'immediately preceding'? In the following sutra will be taught option, when these particles do not immediately precede the verb.

Why do we say "when no word precedes them"? Observe देवदत्त आहो or उताहो भुं॒क्ते॒ ॥

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

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