In Panini's grammar, the 'carrying forward' of a word or condition stated in one rule into the rules that follow, without restating it; a convention read alongside the paribhasha.

Where this term appears

• The Perfect Machine Treatise →

  Carrying forward A grammar of four thousand rules would drown in repetition if every rule restated its own conditions. Panini's answer is anuvritti , carrying forward.

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