5.1.119
तस्य भावस्त्वतलौ
Operational rule vidhi
The affixes त्व and तल् come in the sense of 'the nature thereof' after a word in the Genitive 6th-Case.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Target तस्य ṣaṣṭhī · ekavacanaSubstitute / term भावः prathamā · ekavacanaSubstitute / term त्वतलौ prathamā · dvivacana
- 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
तस्य भावः त्वतलौ
Pāṇini leaves out words that carry over from earlier sūtras. Expand to see the rule as a reader actually understands it.
तस्य → भावः त्वतलौ
Replace tasya with bhāvaḥ tvatalau. Inherited words (anuvṛtti) may add further conditions.
Commentary
The affixes त्व and तल् come in the sense of 'the nature thereof' after a word in the Genitive 6th-Case.
As अश्वस्य भावः = अश्वत्वम् or अश्वता, गोत्वम् or गोता ॥
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.