8.4.30
णेर्विभाषा
Operational rule vidhi
The न of कृत् affix ordained after a causative verb (णयन्त), is optionally changed into ण , when it comes after an उपसर्ग having a cause of change.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Left context णेः pañcamī · ekavacanaSubstitute / term prathamā · ekavacana
- 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.
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Full reading
णेः
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Commentary
The न of कृत् affix ordained after a causative verb (णयन्त), is optionally changed into ण , when it comes after an उपसर्ग having a cause of change.
Thus प्रयापणम् or प्रयापनम्, परियापणम् or परियापनम्, प्रयाप्यमाणम् or प्रयाप्यमानम्, प्रयापणीयम् or प्रयापनीयं, अप्रयापणिः or अप्रयापनिः, प्रयापिणौ or प्रयापिनौ ॥
Why have we used the word विहितं 'ordained' in explaining the sutra? Because the change takes place, even where the कृत् affix does not follow directly after the affix णि, where a third affix such as यक् intervenes. As प्रयाप्यमाणम् ॥ The णेः being in the ablative, under the ordinary rule of interpretation 1.1.72, the krit-affix should come immediately after णि.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.