4.1.116
कन्यायाः कनीन च
Operational rule vidhi
To indicate the meaning of 'his/her offspring', the word कन्या gets the 'अण्' प्रत्यय and it also gets 'कानीन' as आदेश.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Target कन्यायाः ṣaṣṭhī · ekavacanaWord कनीन Indeclinable च avyaya
- Target Ṣaṣṭhī (6th case): names what gets replaced, "in place of X" (1.1.49 षष्ठी स्थानेयोगा).
- Word Case not marked in the source data.
- Indeclinable An avyaya such as च "and", वा "optionally", न "not".
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Full reading
कन्यायाः कनीन च
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Commentary
The affix अण् comes in the sense of descendant after the word कन्या and when this affix is added, कनीन is the substitute of कन्या।
Thus कन्याया अपत्यं = कानीनः 'the son of a virgin' viz 'Karna' or 'Vyasa'. This debars the ढक् of 4.1.121. The word कन्या means a virgin, the son of a virgin is produced by immaculate conception. मुनिदेवतामाहात्म्याद् या पुंयोगेऽपि न कन्यात्वं जहाति, यथा कुन्ती, यथा सत्यवती ॥
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.