4.3.133
आथर्वणिकस्येकलोपश्च
Operational rule vidhi
The affix अण् comes in the sense of 'this is his' after the word आथर्वणिक and the penultimate इक् is elided.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Target आथर्वणिकस्य ṣaṣṭhī · ekavacanaWord इक Substitute / term prathamā · ekavacanaIndeclinable 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.
- Substitute / term Prathamā (1st case): in operational rules, the substitute or the thing introduced; in definitions, the term or its referent.
- Indeclinable An avyaya such as च "and", वा "optionally", न "not".
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Full reading
आथर्वणिकस्य इक च
Pāṇini leaves out words that carry over from earlier sūtras. Expand to see the rule as a reader actually understands it.
आथर्वणिकस्य →
Replace ātharvaṇikasya with lopaḥ. Inherited words (anuvṛtti) may add further conditions.
Commentary
The affix अण् comes in the sense of 'this is his' after the word आथर्वणिक and the penultimate इक् is elided.
This debars वुञ् 4.3.126. Thus आथर्वणिकस्यायम् = आथर्वणो धर्म आम्नाथोवा "the Atharvana i. e. the Law or the Tradition of the Atharvanikas". The phrase चरणाद् धर्माम्नाययोः is understood here. This sutra is also a vartika.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.