कच्छ-आदिभ्यश् च

Adhyāya 4 · Pāda 2 · Rule 133

The affix aṇ comes in the remaining senses after the words kaccha etc. denoting places.,

The word देशे is understood here. This debars वुञ् &c. Thus काच्छः, सैन्धवः, वार्णवः &c. The words कच्छ &c. are not invariable plural words, because by the next sutra, it is shown that these words may signify men and their habits &c. The word विजापक occurs in this list. It would have taken अण् by the last sutra also, because it has क as its penultimate. Its mention in the list is for the sake of the subsequent sutra by which it takes वुञ् also under certain conditions.

1 कच्छ, 2 सिन्धु, 3 वर्णु, 4 गन्धार, 5 मधुमत्, 6 कम्बोज, 7 कश्मीर, 8 साल्व, 9 कुरु, 10 अनुषण्ड (अणु, अण्ड, खण्ड) 11 द्वीप, 12 अनूप, 13 अजवाह, 14 विजापक, 15 कलूतर (कुलून)16 रङ्कु ॥,

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