Pāṇini 2.1.14

Grammatical Sūtra: लक्षणेनाभिप्रती आभिमुख्ये lakṣaṇenābhipratī ābhimukhye Chantings of the aṣṭādhyāyī kindly with permision Sai Susarla.
Individual Word Components: lakṣaṇena abhipratī ābhimukhye
Sūtra with anuvṛtti words: lakṣaṇena abhipratī ābhimukhye ekā (1.4.1), saṃjñā (1.4.1), sup (2.1.2), samāsaḥ (2.1.3), saha (2.1.4), supā (2.1.4), avayayībhāvaḥ (2.1.5), vibhāṣā (2.1.11)
Type of Rule: vidhi
Preceding adhikāra rule:2.1.11 (1vibhāṣā)

Description:

The words abhi and prati when implying direction (towards), are optionally compounded with a word ending in a case-affix denoting the limit, or the goal which regulates or marks the direction; and the resulting compound is Avyayûbliâva. Source: Aṣṭādhyāyī 2.0

[The indeclinable nominal padás 2] abhí-° and práti-° [optionally 11 combine with 4 a syntactically connected 1 nominal padá 4 to form an avyayībhāvá 6 compound 3] when they denote a direction towards (ābhimukhye) and the nominal padás imply the goal of that direction (lákṣaṇena). Source: From Aṣṭādhyāyī of Pāṇini In Roman Transliteration translated by Sumitra M. Katre, Copyright © 1987. Courtesy of the University of Texas Press.

Source:Srisa Chandra Vasu's Aṣṭādhyāyī of Pāṇini

Anuvṛtti: 2.1.5

Commentaries:

Kāśikāvṛttī¹: lakṣaṇaṃ cihnaṃ, tadvācinā subantena saha abhipratī śabdāvābhimukhye vartamānau See More

Kāśikāvṛttī²: anur yatsamayā 2.1.15 samayā samīpam. anuryasya samīpavācī tena lakṣaṇabhūtena See More

Laghusiddhāntakaumudī¹: caturthyantāt kaṣṭaśabdādutsāher'the kyaṅ syāt. kaṣṭāya kramate kaṣṭāyate. pāpa Sū #731 See More