1.1.39

कृन्मेजन्तः

लघुसिद्धान्तकौमुदी 367 · प्रकरण 11, which opens at स्वरादिनिपातमव्ययम् · rule 2 of 5 in it

a कृत् form ending in म् or in an एच् vowel is called अव्यय (indeclinable)

A word built with a कृत् suffix (कृत्, a primary suffix that makes a word straight from a root) is called अव्यय — indeclinable, taking no case ending and never changing form — when it ends in म् or in one of the एच् vowels (ए, ऐ, ओ, औ). The infinitive suffix तुमुन् ends in म्, so an infinitive is indeclinable by this rule: कर्तुम् "to do" and गन्तुम् "to go" stand fixed in that one shape. The derivation names this rule where it fixes the infinitive as an अव्यय, and the next rule then drops the case ending it would otherwise take.

• Aṣṭādhyāyī — 1.1.39 कृन्मेजन्तः
• Bālānandinī (LSK, Telugu) — सूत्र 367 in the abridgement; vendor/balanandini-lsk-telugu-ocr.txt

uncheckeddrafted from the rule text and the Bālānandinī

वरदराज writes under it

कृद्यो मान्त एजन्तश्च तदन्तमव्ययं स्यात्। स्मारं स्मारम्। जीवसे। पिबध्यै॥