Rule. After kṛñ preceded by anu or parā, the parasmaipada comes, in the sense of the agent. Bhaṭṭoji gives the purpose: the parasmaipada is secured "even when the fruit goes to the agent, and in the senses gandhana and the rest".
Example.
anu + kṛñ + laṭ, the fruit going to the agent
→ kṛñ is marked with ñ, so SK 2158 would give the ātmanepada → anukurute
→ this rule: the parasmaipada, the ending tip (heard as ti) → anukaroti "he imitates".
Likewise parā + kṛñ → parākaroti "he rejects".
What the section assumes. Bhaṭṭoji opens the section by recalling SK 2159, śeṣāt kartari parasmaipadam, with the example atti "he eats". That is the default. Each rule from SK 2745 to SK 2754 restricts a root to it; SK 2755 then takes some of that back.
None of these sūtras states the word parasmaipada. It is supplied (śeṣa, "what is left unstated"), as one of Bhaṭṭoji's commentators says under rule after rule. He does not name the rule it comes from. The natural source is SK 2159, the rule Bhaṭṭoji recalls at the head of the section.
The word kartari, "in the sense of the agent", is carried forward too. Bhaṭṭoji shows this here with kartari ity eva, below.
Applies when / blocked by. Why is the rule needed at all? One of Bhaṭṭoji's commentators raises the question. Where the fruit does not go to the agent, SK 2158 does not apply. Then SK 2159 already gives the parasmaipada. So the rule does its work in the other case: when the fruit goes to the agent. That is what Bhaṭṭoji's "even" (api) means.
The rule also overrides SK 2705, gandhanāvakṣepaṇa…, of chapter 61. That rule gives kṛñ the ātmanepada in certain senses. The same commentator lists them: gandhana, avakṣepaṇa, sevana, sāhasikya, pratiyatna, prakathana and upayoga. After anu or parā, kṛñ takes the parasmaipada in these senses too.
Only in the sense of the agent. Bhaṭṭoji adds kartari ity eva. The word kartari is carried forward into this rule. So the parasmaipada does not come for an l-affix that expresses the action itself (bhāva) or the object (karman). There the ātmanepada stands: anukriyate "it is imitated".
The object-agent. One case still needs thought. A karmakartṛ, "object-agent", is a word that is really the object of an action but is presented as its agent. One of Bhaṭṭoji's commentators gives the example anukriyate śabdaḥ svayam eva, "the sound gets imitated of itself". It is an agent, so would this rule give the parasmaipada? Bhaṭṭoji answers no. The ātmanepada comes there by SK 2766, karmavat karmaṇā tulyakriyaḥ, taught in chapter 64.
How does SK 2766 win? There are two ways of reading what that rule extends to the object-agent.
- On the first view, it extends the operation (kāryātideśa). The ātmanepada taught for a karman is itself given to the object-agent. SK 2766 is the later rule (para), so it blocks this one. Bhaṭṭoji calls this the principal view.
- On the second view, it extends the rule (śāstrātideśa). What is extended is SK 2679, which gives the ātmanepada in bhāva and karman. Bhaṭṭoji's commentators point out the difficulty: SK 2679 is earlier than this rule, so it cannot block it.
For the second view, Bhaṭṭoji reads this rule more narrowly. Two mentions of kartṛ are carried forward into it: one from kartari śap (SK 2167) and one from SK 2159. Together they mean "where the agent is purely an agent (kartā eva yaḥ kartā), and not an object-agent". Then this rule simply does not reach the object-agent. Which earlier rule lends the first mention, scholars discuss this.
[1915 print, opening the parasmaipada-prakriyā before this sūtra: By 'śeṣāt kartari parasmaipadam' (SK 2159): atti ('he eats').] This [sūtra] is for [securing] parasmaipada even when the fruit [of the action] goes to the agent (kartṛga phala) [— where svaritañitaḥ kartrabhiprāye kriyāphale, SK 2158, would give ātmanepada for the ñit root kṛñ —] and in [the senses] gandhana and the rest [— where ātmanepada is taught for kṛñ by gandhanāvakṣepaṇa…, SK 2705]. anukaroti ('imitates'). parākaroti ('rejects'). Only in [the sense of] the agent (kartari ity eva) [— 'kartari' is carried forward (anuvṛtti)]: let [parasmaipada] not come in [the senses of] bhāva and karman. Nor, even so, does [this rule] wrongly apply (prasaṅga) in the case of the object-agent (karmakartṛ). For the view that [karmavat karmaṇā tulyakriyaḥ] extends the operation (kāryātideśa) is the principal one, and there [in the karmakartṛ] this [rule] is blocked (bādha) by the ātmanepada [given] by karmavat karmaṇā (SK 2766), which is the later rule (para). On the view that [karmavat karmaṇā] extends the rule (śāstrātideśa), however [— where what is extended is the earlier rule bhāvakarmaṇoḥ, SK 2679, which this later rule would block —], one must explain [this sūtra] by carrying forward (anuvṛtti) the two mentions of 'kartṛ' — the one from kartari śap (SK 2167) and the one from śeṣāt [kartari parasmaipadam] (SK 2159) — [so that it means:] 'where the agent is purely an agent (kartā eva yaḥ kartā), and not an object-agent (karmakartṛ), there [parasmaipada comes]'.
- textual The opening sentence of the prakaraṇa is missing from our kaumudī (Wikisource lacks it too). The print (NSP p. 462, scan page-0472, read) gives the heading 'tiṅante parasmaipadaprakriyā 59' and then, in kaumudī type: 'śeṣāt kartari parasmaipadam | 2159' atti |. The scan clearly reads 'atti' (the example form, 'he eats'); collation batch04 quotes it as 'asti', which is a misreading. Supplied in the English in a square bracket headed '1915 print'. Mūla → Ajai's Print Check.
- textual Ours reads 'kartṛgrahaṇadvayam uvartya'; the print (NSP p. 462, scan page-0472, read) has 'kartṛgrahaṇadvayam anuvartya', and so does Wikisource. The na has dropped out in ours (collation batch03, class A). The English follows 'anuvartya'. Mūla → Ajai's Print Check.
- commentary BM: 'parasmaipadam' is supplied (śeṣa). Objection: svaritañitaḥ gives ātmanepada only when the fruit goes to the agent, so where it does not, śeṣāt kartari already gives parasmaipada; why this rule? The answer is 'kartṛge 'pi'. 'gandhanādau' means the senses gandhana, avakṣepaṇa, sevana, sāhasikya, pratiyatna, prakathana and upayoga. Followed: the brackets naming SK 2158 and SK 2705.
- commentary BM on 'mā bhūt': 'kartari' is carried forward so that parasmaipada does not come for an l denoting bhāva or karman when the fruit goes to the agent. On 'na ca': the worry is that even with 'kartari' carried forward, parasmaipada would be unavoidable in a karmakartṛ, as in 'anukriyate śabdaḥ svayam eva'. Followed: the bracket on anuvṛtti and 'wrongly apply'.
- commentary BM on 'asya': it is this rule's parasmaipada that the later karmavat karmaṇā blocks. On 'kāryātideśapakṣasya mukhyatayā': on the śāstrātideśa view the rule bhāvakarmaṇoḥ itself would be extended to the karmakartṛ; it is not later than this rule, so how could it block it? The śāstrātideśa serves only to bring about the extension of operation, so the kāryātideśa is principal: the ātmanepada taught for karman is taught for the karmakartṛ, and being later it blocks this parasmaipada. Followed: the bracket naming SK 2679 in k1.
- commentary BM on 'śāstrātideśapakṣe tu' names the source of the first 'kartṛ' differently from the kaumudī: one 'kartṛ' comes from 'kartari karmavyatihāre' (SK 2680), the other from 'śeṣāt kartari parasmaipadam'; together they give 'only where the agent is an agent by nature, not a karmakartṛ that depends on what the speaker intends'. The kaumudī (ours and the print, scan page-0472) names 'kartari śap (SK 2167)'. Recorded; the English keeps the kaumudī's 'kartari śap'.
- commentary TB (sk.2745.t1, re-filed from the tail of sk.2744.t1 on 2026-10-05; NSP p. 462): 'asya bādhāt' means the blocking of 'anuparābhyām'. That is why under karmavat karmaṇā Bhaṭṭoji will say it is a kāryātideśa. On the śāstrātideśa view, karmavat karmaṇā does not itself prescribe ātmanepada; it extends the rule that prescribes it, bhāvakarmaṇoḥ, and that rule, being earlier, would be blocked by the later anuparābhyām. Anticipating this, Bhaṭṭoji says 'śāstrātideśe…'. Followed: 'this [rule]' and the bracket naming SK 2679.
- commentary TB on the opening line 'śeṣāt kartari…', in sk.2745.t1 (NSP p. 462): rules such as anudāttaṅita restrict those roots to ātmanepada only, so parasmaipada cannot arise there; since 'kartari parasmaipadam' restricts [the rest] to parasmaipada only, the word 'śeṣa' is for clarity (ity āhuḥ). Some (kecit) say instead: since anudāttaṅita etc. restrict ātmanepada to those roots alone, śeṣāt kartari would give only parasmaipada there [in the rest], so the word 'parasmaipada' is for clarity. Recorded.
- translator The source rules of the supplied 'parasmaipadam' and of the carried-forward 'kartari' are the translator's identification, not stated by BM, which says only 'parasmaipadam iti śeṣaḥ' and 'kartarīty asyānuvṛttiḥ'. The likely source of both is śeṣāt kartari parasmaipadam (SK 2159), which the 1915 print sets at the head of this prakaraṇa; for the two 'kartṛ's of the śāstrātideśa view, the kaumudī itself names SK 2167 and SK 2159, and BM names SK 2680 and SK 2159.