शण्डिकादिभ्यो ञ्यः

Operational rule vidhi

The affix ञ्य comes in the sense of 'this is his native-land' after the words शण्डिक etc.

Word by word (padaccheda)

Left context शण्डिका- आदिभ्यः pañcamī · bahuvacanaSubstitute / term ञ्यः 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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शण्डिका-आदिभ्यः ञ्यः

Pāṇini leaves out words that carry over from earlier sūtras. Expand to see the rule as a reader actually understands it.

The affix ञ्य comes in the sense of 'this is his native-land' after the words शण्डिक etc.
This debars अण् &c. Thus शाण्डिक्यः, सार्वसेन्यः &c.

1 शण्डिक, 2 सर्वसेन, 3 सर्वकेश, 4 शक, 5 शट, (सट), 6 रक, 7 शङ्ख, 8 बोध.

Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.