8.2.100
अनुदात्तं प्रश्नान्ताभिपूजितयोः
Operational rule vidhi
The end vowel at the end of a question or of a praise is प्लुत, but unaccented.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Substitute / term prathamā · ekavacanaRight context प्रश्नान्ताभिपूजितयोः saptamī · dvivacana
- 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
प्रश्नान्ताभिपूजितयोः
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Commentary
The end vowel at the end of a question or of a praise is प्लुत, but unaccented.
That which is employed at the end of an interrogative sentence is called प्रश्नान्तः ॥ According to some, this rule does not ordain pluta, but only ordains the anudatta-ness of those syllables which become pluta by the previous rules 8.2.84 &c. The meaning of the sutra then is:- That pluta which comes at the end of an Interrogative sentence or a sentence denoting admiration, is anudatta.
Thus अगमा꣡३ : पूर्वा꣡३म् ग्रामा꣡३न् अग्निभूता॒३इ or अगम॑३: पूर्वा॑३न् ग्रामा॑३न् पटा॒३उ (i.e. अगमः पूर्वान् ग्रामान् अग्निभूते or पटो) ॥ The words अग्निभूते, and पटो being finals in a question, become anudatta as well as pluta. The other words अगमः &c become svarita and pluta by 8.2.105. See 7.2.10.
As regards अभिपूजिते we have शोभनः खल्वसि माणवका॒ ३ ॥ Here the final of माणवक becomes anudatta and pluta.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.