4.3.90
अभिजनश्च
Operational rule vidhi
After a word in the Nominative 1st-Case in construction, an affix comes in the sense of 'this is his mother-land'.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Substitute / term अभिजनः prathamā · ekavacanaIndeclinable च avyaya
- 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
अभिजनः च
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Commentary
After a word in the Nominative 1st-Case in construction, an affix comes in the sense of 'this is his mother-land'.
The difference between निवासः and अभिजनः is this. Where a person lives himself for the present, that is his निवास or dwelling-place. Where his ancestors (अभिजनाः) have lived, that is his अभिजन 'native country, home or ancestral abode'. Thus स्रौघ्नः 'a person whose ancestral home is in Srughna'. माथुरः, राष्ट्रियः ॥ The separation of this sutra from the last is for the sake of the subsequent sutra, in which the anuvritti of abhijana' only runs.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.