4.1.95
अत इञ्
Operational rule vidhi
To indicate the meaning of 'his/her offspring', an अदन्त word in the षष्ठी विभक्ति gets the 'इञ्' प्रत्यय.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Left context अतः pañcamī · ekavacanaSubstitute / term इ prathamā · ekavacana
- Left context Pañcamī (5th case): "after X", the operation applies to what follows (1.1.67 तस्मादित्युत्तरस्य). Also used for limits and sources.
- Substitute / term Prathamā (1st case): in operational rules, the substitute or the thing introduced; in definitions, the term or its referent.
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Full reading
अतः इञ्
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Commentary
The affix affix इञ् after a प्रातिपदिक (Nominal Stem) which ends in short अ , in denoting a descendant.
This debars अण् 4.1.83. Thus दक्षस्यापत्यं = दाक्षिः 'descendant of Daksha'. Why do we say short अ (for this is the force of the letter त् added to अ, by 1.1.69 and 1.1.70? The descendant of शुभंयाः or कीलालपाः (words which end in long आ) will not be formed by the affix इञ् ॥
The descendant of दशरथ by this sutra is दाशरथिः, but the form दाशरथ formed by अण् is also met with. As "प्रदीयताम् दाशरथाय मैथिली" 'Give Sita to the son of Dasaratha.'
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.