वैयाकरण सिद्धान्त कौमुदी (भट्टोजि दीक्षित - बालमनोरमा व तत्त्वबोधिनी टीका सम्पूर्ण पूर्वार्ध)

? Where would "वेध" be? Did the typesetter omit "वेध"? Or did "वेध" get dropped, leaving just "ने"? In old printed books (like Chowkhamba or Nirnaya Sagar), whatever is printed on the page is what we must transcribe! Let's look at the characters on the page itself: Line 3 ends with: "धेक" (or "धेक-") Line 4 starts with: "ने इत्येके ॥ अधिधेकत् ॥ ७ ॥" (or "अदिधेकत्") Wait, let's look at the letter 'ध' in "अधिधेकत्": Wait, is it "अधिधेकत्" or "अदिधेकत्"? Let's zoom in very closely on: "अ...धेकत्" First letter: अ Second letter: धि (it has a top loop? Wait, compare with 'ध' in 'धेक' or 'धात्वर्थे' in line 5. 'धा' has a small loop at top left. The letter here is 'दि' or 'धि'? It has a serif, vertical, then curved like 'द', with 'ि' matra. Wait, look at 'दि' in 'प्रातिपदिकात्' (line 5): exactly the same shape! So it is 'दि'! Wait, or is it 'धि'? In some fonts, 'धि' has a loop. Here 'ध' has a loop: look at 'धात्वर्थ