Grammatical Sūtra: ओषधेश्च विभक्तावप्रथमायाम् oṣadheśca vibhaktāvaprathamāyām
Individual Word Components: oṣadheḥ ca vibhaktau aprathamāyām
Sūtra with anuvṛtti words: oṣadheḥ ca vibhaktau aprathamāyām uttarapade (6.3.1), dīrghaḥ (6.3.111), saṁhitāyām (6.3.114), mantre (6.3.131)
Type of Rule: vidhi
Preceding adhikāra rule:6.3.114 (1saṃhitāyām)
Description:
In a Mantra, the final of ((oṣadhi)) is lengthened before the case-endings, but not in the Nominative. Source: Aṣṭādhyāyī 2.0
[In the Mántra section of the Veda 131 a substitute long vowel 111 replaces the stem-final phoneme 1.1.52 of the nominal stem 4.1.1] óṣadhi-° `herb, plant' [before 1.1.66] ví-bhak-ti (1.4.104) [affixes 3.1.1] excluding the first sUP triplets (á-prathamā-y-ām) [in continuous utterance 114]. Source: From Aṣṭādhyāyī of Pāṇini In Roman Transliteration translated by Sumitra M. Katre, Copyright © 1987. Courtesy of the University of Texas Press.