5.3.65
विन्मतोर्लुक्
Operational rule vidhi
The affixes विन् and मत् are लुक् elided when इष्ठन् and इयसुन् follow.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Target विन्- मतोः ṣaṣṭhī · dvivacanaSubstitute / term 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
विन्-
Pāṇini leaves out words that carry over from earlier sūtras. Expand to see the rule as a reader actually understands it.
विन्-
Replace vin-matoḥ with luk. Inherited words (anuvṛtti) may add further conditions.
Commentary
The affixes विन् and मत् are लुक् elided when इष्ठन् and इयसुन् follow.
Thus स्रग्विन्-स्रजिष्ठः, स्रजीयान्; त्वग्वत्-त्वचिष्ठः, त्वचीयान् ॥ सर्वइमे स्रग्विणः, अयमेषामतिशयेन, स्रजिष्ठः । उभाविमौ स्रग्विणौ, अयमनयोरतिशयेन, स्रजीयान् । अयमस्मात् स्रजीयाम् । सर्वइमे त्वग्वन्तः अयमेषामतिशयेन, त्वचिष्ठः । उभाविमौ त्वग्वन्तौ, अयमनयोरतिशयेन, त्वचीयाम् अयमस्मात्त्वचीयान् ॥ This sutra is a jnapaka or indicator that words ending in विन् and मत् or वत् form their comparative and superlative degrees by adding ईयस् and इष्ठन् ॥
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.