1.2.50
इद्गोण्याः
Operational rule vidhi
The short is substituted in the place of गोणी , when the तद्धित affix is elided by लुक्.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Substitute / term prathamā · ekavacanaTarget गोण्याः ṣaṣṭhī · ekavacana
- Substitute / term Prathamā (1st case): in operational rules, the substitute or the thing introduced; in definitions, the term or its referent.
- Target Ṣaṣṭhī (6th case): names what gets replaced, "in place of X" (1.1.49 षष्ठी स्थानेयोगा).
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Full reading
गोण्याः
Pāṇini leaves out words that carry over from earlier sūtras. Expand to see the rule as a reader actually understands it.
गोण्याः →
Replace goṇyāḥ with it. Inherited words (anuvṛtti) may add further conditions.
Commentary
The short is substituted in the place of गोणी , when the तद्धित affix is elided by लुक्।
By the former sutra when a Taddhita is elided, the long ई of the feminine also required elision. But this rule makes an exception in favor of the word गोणी३ in which, under similar circumstances the short इ replaces the long ई, as in the compound पंचगोणिः 'purchased for five gonis.' Here the Taddhita suffix which conveys the meaning of "purchased for," has been rejected after गोणी by 5.1.28 \[1\]. Therefore by previous sutra, the feminine suffix ई also required rejection. But this sutra intervenes and changes the long ई into short इ.
This sutra is divided into two separate rules by the process called yoga-vibhaga. Thus इत् is made one sutra by itself, and then it means, when there is a suppression of Taddhita aflix by लुक्, then the long ई is replaced by short इ. Thus purchased with five needles पंचभिः सूचीभिः क्रीतः = पंचसूचिः, दशसूचिः. This is restricted to such examples of purchase only.
## Footnotes
- [1] - अध्यर्द्धपूर्वद्विगोर्लुगसंज्ञायाम् ॥
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.