सनाद्यन्ता धातवः

Definition saṃjñā धातुसंज्ञा

The words ending in a सनादि प्रत्यय are called 'धातु'.

Word by word (padaccheda)

Term / subject सनाद्यन्ताः prathamā · bahuvacanaTerm / subject धातवः prathamā · bahuvacana

Term / subject Prathamā (1st case): the term being defined, or the subject of the statement.

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Full reading

सनाद्यन्ताः धातवः

Pāṇini leaves out words that carry over from earlier sūtras. Expand to see the rule as a reader actually understands it.

Commentary

All the roots ending with the affixes सन् and others are called धातु ।
This extends the sphere of Dhatu or roots already defined in sutra 1.3.1. These roots may be called derivative roots. They are separate independent roots, and have all the functions of a root, as taking tense-affixes &c. as shown in the above examples. Thus चिकीर्षा 'to wish to do', कारि 'to cause to do'; चेक्रिय 'to do repeatedly' are separate roots and not the same as कृ 'to do' and thus take शप् &c.

Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.