Praudhamanorama 60_377

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As for "śataṃ jayati" ('He conquers a hundred'): ji is in the sense of overcoming. What has been explained, however, as ji in the sense of victory, that is not correct, because that [root] is intransitive. Although ji and others are not recited in the Bhāṣya, nonetheless they are included by the word "ca" ('and'); such is Kaiyaṭa's [view].
As for "arthanibandhanā" ('based on the meaning'): it is not dependent on the own form, because the synonym of pṛcch ('to ask'), namely cud, is also seen to take two objects in the Bhāṣya on the sūtra "tadrāja": "ahamapīdamacodyaṃ codye" ('I too am asked this unquestionable thing'); this is the meaning. And likewise Bhaṭṭi [says]: