वान्यस्मिन् सपिण्डे स्थविरतरे जीवति

Definition saṃjñā युवसंज्ञा

The living descendant of a grandson etc. is called optionally a युवन् when a more superior सपिण्ड other than a brother is alive.

Word by word (padaccheda)

Indeclinable वा avyayaIn / when अन्यस्मिन् saptamī · ekavacanaIn / when सपिण्डे saptamī · ekavacanaIn / when स्थविरतरे saptamī · ekavacanaIn / when जीवति saptamī · ekavacana

Indeclinable An avyaya such as च "and", वा "optionally", न "not".
In / when Saptamī (7th case): "in X" or "when X", a domain or condition.

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Full reading

वा अन्यस्मिन् सपिण्डे स्थविरतरे जीवति

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Commentary

The living descendant of a grandson etc. is called optionally a युवन् when a more superior सपिण्ड other than a brother is alive.
The sapinda relationship extends up to seven degrees. The word स्थविर means 'superior', and स्थविरतर is comparative and means 'more superior', that is to say, superior both by degree of descent and by age. The word जीवति is again read in this aphorism, though there is the anuvritti of जीवति also from 4.1.163. This जीवति of the sutra qualifies the word descendant, the जीवति which is understood by context qualifies the word sapinda thus :-

- Garga (dead) -> Gargi (alive)
- Garga (dead) -> Gargi (alive) -> Gargya (alive)
- Garga (dead) -> Gargi (alive) -> Gargya (dead) -> Gargyayna) or Gargya (alive)

Here the uncle or the brother of a grand-father being alive, the descendant is optionally called Yuvan or Gotra.

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