5.1.95
तस्य च दक्षिणा यज्ञाख्येभ्यः
Operational rule vidhi
The affix ठञ् comes after a word being the name of sacrifice, in the sense of 'the fee thereof'.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Target तस्य ṣaṣṭhī · ekavacanaIndeclinable च avyayaSubstitute / term दक्षिणा prathamā · ekavacanaLeft context यज्ञाख्येभ्यः pañcamī · bahuvacana
- Target Ṣaṣṭhī (6th case): names what gets replaced, "in place of X" (1.1.49 षष्ठी स्थानेयोगा).
- Indeclinable An avyaya such as च "and", वा "optionally", न "not".
- Substitute / term Prathamā (1st case): in operational rules, the substitute or the thing introduced; in definitions, the term or its referent.
- Left context Pañcamī (5th case): "after X", the operation applies to what follows (1.1.67 तस्मादित्युत्तरस्य). Also used for limits and sources.
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Full reading
तस्य च दक्षिणा यज्ञाख्येभ्यः
Pāṇini leaves out words that carry over from earlier sūtras. Expand to see the rule as a reader actually understands it.
तस्य → दक्षिणा / यज्ञाख्येभ्यः
Replace tasya with dakṣiṇā when it comes after yajñākhyebhyaḥ. Inherited words (anuvṛtti) may add further conditions.
Commentary
The affix ठञ् comes after a word being the name of sacrifice, in the sense of 'the fee thereof'.
As अग्निष्टोमस्य दक्षिणा = आग्निष्टोमिकी, वाजपेयिकी, राजसूयिकी ॥
The word आख्या in the sutra implies that the affix comes even after those sacrifice-denoting words which do not express time 5.1.78; had it not been used, the sutra would have applied only to such sacrifice-denoting words as एकाहः, द्वादशाह, which are time-denoting words as well. The Vartika in 5.1.20 would apply to द्वादशाह &c. Some texts do not read च in the sutra.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.