8.1.59
चवायोगे प्रथमा
Operational rule vidhi
The first finite verb only retains its accent in connection with च and वा.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Right context चवायोगे saptamī · ekavacanaSubstitute / term prathamā · ekavacana
- 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
चवायोगे
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Commentary
The first finite verb only retains its accent in connection with च and वा।
The anuvritti of अगतेः which was drawn in the last sutra, does not run into this. Thus गर्दभांश्च काल꣡यति, वीणां च वा॒द॒य॒ति॒ ॥ गर्दभान् वा काल꣡यति, वीणां वा वा॒द॒य॒ति॒ ॥
The word योग in the sutra indicates that the mere connection with the verb is meant, whether this connection takes place by adding these words च and वा, before the verb, or after the verb, is immaterial for the purposes of this sutra, (not so in the last). The word प्रथमा shows that the first verb is governed by this rule and not the second.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.