5.1.56
सोऽस्यांशवस्नभृतयः
Operational rule vidhi
The affixes taught in प्राग्वतेष्ठञ् (5.1.18) etc. have also the sense of 'this is his portion, price or pay'.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Substitute / term सः prathamā · ekavacanaTarget अस्य ṣaṣṭhī · ekavacanaSubstitute / term अंश- वस्न- भृतयः prathamā · bahuvacana
- 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
सः अस्य अंश-
Pāṇini leaves out words that carry over from earlier sūtras. Expand to see the rule as a reader actually understands it.
अस्य → सः अंश-
Replace asya with saḥ aṃśa-vasna-bhṛtayaḥ. Inherited words (anuvṛtti) may add further conditions.
Commentary
The affixes taught in प्राग्वतेष्ठञ् 5.1.18 etc. have also the sense of 'this is his portion, price or pay'.
The सः shows that the case in construction is nominative. The word अंश means 'share,' वस्न means 'price,' भृति means 'wages.' Thus पंच अंशो वस्नो वा भृतिर्वास्य = पंचक 'whose portion, price or pay is five.' So सप्तकः, साहस्रः ॥
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.