1.1.32
विभाषा जसि
Definition saṃjñā सर्वनामसंज्ञा
The words formed by the द्वन्द्व समास of the words of सर्वादिगण are optionally called सर्वनाम when they get the 'जस्' pratyay.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Term / subject prathamā · ekavacanaIn / when जसि saptamī · ekavacana
- Term / subject Prathamā (1st case): the term being defined, or the subject of the statement.
- In / when Saptamī (7th case): "in X" or "when X", a domain or condition.
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Full reading
जसि
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Commentary
Their द्वन्द compounds are optionally सर्वनाम when the nominative plural termination जस् follows.
This is a proviso to sutra 1.1.31, and declares that before the termination जस् (which is the termination of the nominative plural, as we shall find later on, and which in the pronominals is replaced by शी), the dvandva compounds may be treated either as sarvanamas or as ordinary words. Thus the plural of वर्णाश्रमेतर may be either वर्णाश्रमेतराः or ०तरे, that is, the word may take either जस् or शी.
This sutra governs the four succeeding sutras. The option allowed in the case of the application of the affix Ist pl. to the dvandva compounds of pronominals, does not extend to the dvandva compounds of pronominal which take the affix अकच् 5.3.71. There the sutra 1.1.31 is absolute. Thus, कतरः + कतमकः = कतरकतमकाः in the plural. This affix अक (अकच्) comes before the last vowel, with what follows it, of the pronominals and indeclinables.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.