4.2.69
तस्य निवासः
Operational rule vidhi
To indicate the name of a country by referring to its residents, an appropriate तद्धित प्रत्यय gets attached to the word in षष्ठीविभक्ति representing the name of the residents.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Target तस्य ṣaṣṭhī · ekavacanaSubstitute / term निवासः prathamā · ekavacana
- Target Ṣaṣṭhī (6th case): names what gets replaced, "in place of X" (1.1.49 षष्ठी स्थानेयोगा).
- 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
तस्य निवासः
Pāṇini leaves out words that carry over from earlier sūtras. Expand to see the rule as a reader actually understands it.
तस्य → निवासः
Replace tasya with nivāsaḥ. Inherited words (anuvṛtti) may add further conditions.
Commentary
After a word in the Genitive -6th-Case in construction an affix is added in the sense of 'his dwelling-place' the whole word expressing the name of a country.
The sutra literally means "his dwelling place". A place is sometimes named after the people whose habitation it is. Thus शैवः "the country of the Sibis", ॠजुनावान्निवासौ देशः = आर्जुनावः ॥ The word ॠजुनावां = ॠज्वीनौर्येषां ॥
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.