4.4.95
हृदयस्य प्रियः
Operational rule vidhi
The affix यत् comes in the sense of 'loved' after the word हृदय being in the Genitive -6th-Case in construction.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Target हृदयस्य ṣaṣṭhī · ekavacanaSubstitute / term प्रियः 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
हृदयस्य प्रियः
Pāṇini leaves out words that carry over from earlier sūtras. Expand to see the rule as a reader actually understands it.
हृदयस्य → प्रियः
Replace hṛdayasya with priyaḥ. Inherited words (anuvṛtti) may add further conditions.
Commentary
The affix यत् comes in the sense of 'loved' after the word हृदय being in the Genitive -6th-Case in construction.
The construction is shown by the aphorism itself. Thus हृदयस्य प्रियः = हृ꣡द्यः 'pleasant to the heart' e. g. हृद्यो देशः, हृद्यं वनम् ॥ But we cannot say हृद्यः पुत्रः, the word संज्ञायां 4.4.99 governs this sutra also, and thus restricts the meaning of the word.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.