Grammatical Sūtra: द्विस्त्रिश्चतुरिति कृत्वोऽर्थे dvistriścaturiti kṛtvo'rthe Individual Word Components: dvistriścatuḥ (avibhaktyantanirdeśaḥ) iti kṛtvo'rtheSūtra with anuvṛtti words: dvistriścatuḥ (avibhaktyantanirdeśaḥ) iti kṛtvo'rthe padasya (8.1.16 ), pūrvatra (8.2.1 ), asiddham (8.2.1 ), saṁhitāyām (8.2.108 ), visarjanīyasya (8.3.34 ), kupvoḥ (8.3.37 ), saḥ (8.3.38 ), ṣaḥ (8.3.39 ), anyatarasyām (8.3.42 ) Type of Rule: vidhiPreceding adhikāra rule: 8.3.4 (1anunāsikāt paro 'nusvāraḥ)
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((ṣ)) is optionally the substitute of the visargas of ((dvis)), ((tris)) and ((catur)) when they are used as Numeral adverbs, (before a hard guttural and labial). Source: Aṣṭādhyāyī 2.0
[The substitute phoneme retroflex ṣ 38 optionally 42 replaces padá 1.16 final 1.1.52 ḥ 34 of] dvís `twice', trís `thrice' and catúr `four times' when denoting the sense of [the affix 3.1.1] kr̥tvás (5.4.17,20) `times' [before 1.1.66 a velar or labial stop 37 in continuous utterance 2.108]. Source: From Aṣṭādhyāyī of Pāṇini In Roman Transliteration translated by Sumitra M. Katre, Copyright © 1987. Courtesy of the University of Texas Press.
Mahābhāṣya: With kind permission: Dr. George Cardona 3/39:pañcakṛtvaḥ karoti | 4/39:atha kṛtvorthagrahaṇam kimartham | 5/39:iha mā bhūt |
1/39:dvistriścaturgrahaṇam kimartham |28/39:kṛtvasujarthe ṣatvam bravīti |*
Collapse Kielhorn/Abhyankar (III,434.17-18) Rohatak (V,458-460) * Kātyāyana's Vārttikas
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