5.1.104
समयस्तदस्य प्राप्तम्
Operational rule vidhi
The affix ठञ् comes in the sense of 'that has arrived for it' after the word समय in the Nominative 1st-Case in construction.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Substitute / term समयः prathamā · ekavacanaSubstitute / term तत् prathamā · ekavacanaTarget अस्य ṣaṣṭhī · ekavacanaSubstitute / term प्राप्तम् 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
समयः तत् अस्य प्राप्तम्
Pāṇini leaves out words that carry over from earlier sūtras. Expand to see the rule as a reader actually understands it.
अस्य → समयः तत् प्राप्तम्
Replace asya with samayaḥ tat prāptam. Inherited words (anuvṛtti) may add further conditions.
Commentary
The affix ठञ् comes in the sense of 'that has arrived for it' after the word समय in the Nominative 1st-Case in construction.
Thus सामयिकं कर्म = 'a work for which the time has come'.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.