4.3.89
सोऽस्य निवासः
Operational rule vidhi
After a word in the Nominative 1st-Case in construction, an affix comes in the sense of 'this is his dwelling place'.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Substitute / term सः prathamā · ekavacanaTarget अस्य ṣaṣṭhī · ekavacanaSubstitute / term निवासः prathamā · ekavacana
- Substitute / term Prathamā (1st case): in operational rules, the substitute or the thing introduced; in definitions, the term or its referent.
- Target Ṣaṣṭhī (6th case): names what gets replaced, "in place of X" (1.1.49 षष्ठी स्थानेयोगा).
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Full reading
सः अस्य निवासः
Pāṇini leaves out words that carry over from earlier sūtras. Expand to see the rule as a reader actually understands it.
अस्य → सः निवासः
Replace asya with saḥ nivāsaḥ. Inherited words (anuvṛtti) may add further conditions.
Commentary
After a word in the Nominative 1st-Case in construction, an affix comes in the sense of 'this is his dwelling place'.
The word स shows that the word to which the affix is to be added is in the nominative case. अस्य 'his' shows that the meaning of the affix is that of a genitive case. निवासः, shows that the first word in construction must signify a dwelling place. निवास means "a country i. e. where a person lives (nivasanti asmin)".
स्रुघ्नो निवासोऽस्य = स्रौघ्नः 'a present dweller of Srughna', माथुरः, राष्ट्रियः &c.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.