3.4.96
वैतोऽन्यत्र
Operational rule vidhi
In the लेट् (Vedic Subjunctive) ऐ is optionally the substitute of ए in other places then those mentioned in the last sūtra.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Indeclinable वा avyayaTarget एतः ṣaṣṭhī · ekavacanaIndeclinable अन्यत्र avyaya
- Indeclinable An avyaya such as च "and", वा "optionally", न "not".
- Target Ṣaṣṭhī (6th case): names what gets replaced, "in place of X" (1.1.49 षष्ठी स्थानेयोगा).
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Full reading
वा एतः अन्यत्र
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Commentary
In the लेट् (Vedic Subjunctive) ऐ is optionally the substitute of ए in other places then those mentioned in the last sūtra.
Thus शयै, ईशै, &c, in the following examples:- सप्ताहानि शयै, अहमेव पशूनामीशै, मदया एव वो ग्रहा गृह्यान्तै, मद्देवत्यान्येव वः पात्राण्युच्यान्तै । And in the alternative we have simply ए, as यत्र क्व च ते मनो दक्षम् दधसउत्तरम् ।
Why do we say 'in other places than these governed by the last sutra'? Observe मन्त्रयैते, मन्त्रयैथे ।
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.