Verse 3.14.438

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.438:

कृत्वसुज्विषया यापि शयितव्यादिषु क्रिया ।
उपमानोपमेयत्व तत्राप्यन्तमसम्भवि ॥ ४३८ ॥

kṛtvasujviṣayā yāpi śayitavyādiṣu kriyā |
upamānopameyatva tatrāpyantamasambhavi || 438 ||

438. As for the action expressed by words like śayitavyam in association with the suffix kṛtvasuc, there the relation of upamāna and upameya is quite impossible.

Commentary

[It might be said that an action expressed by a kṛtya suffix can be the means (sādhana) of another action and so a word ending in such a suffix can take the third case-ending. But the fact is that it is not such a word which is meant to be the stem to which the suffix rati is added by P. 5.1.115. It is true that the suffix kṛtvasuc can be used in connection with such a word. One can say pañcakṛtvaḥ śayitavyam. So śayitavya is a word expressive of a process. But the suffix vati is used only, when the relation of upamāna and upameya is understood. Here it is not understood. In śayitavyam there is the root √śī and the suffix tavya. The former expresses the action of lying down. What action different from that does the suffix express? It is not added in the sense of the root itself (svārthika) because it has been taught in the sense of bhāva or karma by P. 3.4.70. The position is that here the root expresses an action which was once a process, but not now. The suffix in śayitavya denotes the accessory and as the latter implies an action, it is also understood. In pacati devadattaḥ, the suffix in pacati denotes the agent and because of that, the root expresses action as a process. In āsyate devadattena, the verbal suffix in āsyate stands for bhāvanā, and because of association with it, the root expresses a process. The action denoted by the verbal suffix is different. Here also the verbal suffix expresses an action which is rightly different from what the root expresses.]