4.1.16
यञश्च
Operational rule vidhi
The affix ङीप् is used in denoting the feminine after a प्रातिपदिक (Nominal Stem) ending in यञ् -- गर्गादिभ्यो यञ् (4.1.105).
Word by word (padaccheda)
Left context यञः pañcamī · ekavacanaIndeclinable च avyaya
- Left context Pañcamī (5th case): "after X", the operation applies to what follows (1.1.67 तस्मादित्युत्तरस्य). Also used for limits and sources.
- Indeclinable An avyaya such as च "and", वा "optionally", न "not".
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यञः च
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Commentary
The affix ङीप् is used in denoting the feminine after a प्रातिपदिक (Nominal Stem) ending in यञ् -- गर्गादिभ्यो यञ् 4.1.105.
Thus गार्ग्य + ङीप् = गार्ग्य + ई 6.4.148 = गार्ग् + ई 6.4.150 = गार्गी 'a female descendant of Garga'; so also वात्सी ॥
Vart:- This rule applies when the affix यञ् denotes a descendant, and not otherwise. Therefore ई will not be applied to form the feminine of द्वैप्य of द्वीप् + यञ् 4.3.10. Its feminine will be द्वैप्या 'a living on or relating to an island'.
The separation of this sutra from the last, (for the affix यञ् could well have been included in the same), is for the sake of the subsequent aphorisms; in which the anuvritti of यञ् only runs and not of others.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.