2.3.58
दिवस्तदर्थस्य
Operational rule vidhi
The object of the verb दिव् when having the above-mentioned sense of 'dealing' or 'stalking', takes the 6th-Case.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Target दिवः ṣaṣṭhī · ekavacanaTarget तदर्थस्य ṣaṣṭhī · ekavacana
- Target Ṣaṣṭhī (6th case): names what gets replaced, "in place of X" (1.1.49 षष्ठी स्थानेयोगा).
Full reading
दिवः तदर्थस्य
Pāṇini leaves out words that carry over from earlier sūtras. Expand to see the rule as a reader actually understands it.
Commentary
The object of the verb दिव् when having the above-mentioned sense of 'dealing' or 'stalking', takes the 6th-Case.
Ex. शतस्य दीव्यति 'he stakes or deals in a hundred.' But not in ब्राह्मणं दीव्यति 'he jokes with the Brahmana.'
The yoga vibhaga when this root might well have been included in the last aphorism, is for the sake of the succeeding sutras, in which the anuvritti of दिव runs, and not of others.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.