i. e. not affecting the essential portion of the base (see aṅga) of
a word, unessential to it (liter. ‘beyond what affects the es-
sential portion of the aṅga’); e. g. the Mahābh. in discussing
on Pāṇ. I. 2. 48. gives the instance priyasenānīkaḥ which is
apparently in contradiction with the rule, as regards the
ī, and observes antaraṅgaṃ hrasvatvaṃ . antaraṅgataraḥ kap ‘the short-
ness of the vowel is essential (in the rule) to the aṅga, but
the affix kap is unessential to it’; Kaiyy.: kap tu samāsavi-
śeṣaṃ bahuvrīhiṃ nadyuttarapadamapekṣata iti vahiraṅgaḥ ‘but kap con-
cerns only the special Bahuvrīhi compound, the latter part
of which is a noun of those termed nadī, hence it is un-
essential to the base’. E. antaraṅga, taddh. aff. tarap.