Verse 3.7.72

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.7.72:

दुह्यादिवन्नयत्यादौ कर्मत्वमकथाश्रयम् ।
आख्यातानुपयोगे तु नियमाच्छेव इष्यते ॥ ७२ ॥

duhyādivannayatyādau karmatvamakathāśrayam |
ākhyātānupayoge tu niyamāccheva iṣyate || 72 ||

72. As (the cow etc.) in the case of roots duh, etc. (village etc.) in the case of roots ‘nī’ etc. they become objects because no other name has been taught for them. As for one who expounds (ākhyātā), where there is no acquisition of knowledge in the prescribed manner (upayoga), he would come under the rest (śeṣa) because of the restriction due to the specification of roots.

Commentary

The author now says something about the objects of the roots ‘√nī’ and ‘√vah’.

[Read verse 72 above]

[As the cow in the case of roots like duh, in the case of roots like ‘nī’ etc. also, the destination is an object by P. 1.4.51. A vārttika under this sūtra enumerates the roots where this takes place. That is why in naṭasya śṛnoti = ‘he listens to the actor’, the actor does not become the object. The actor would become apādāna if there was upayoga, that is, acquisition of knowledge in the prescribed manner. Where this does not exist, the actor should really become an object according to P. 1.4.51, but does not do so because the roots have been specified and śru = ‘to hear’ is not one of them.]

It is now stated that, according to some, the object is the main one in the case of these enumerated roots also.