5.4.134
जायाया निङ्
Operational rule vidhi
For the final of जाया is substituted निङ् in a बहुव्रीहि समास .
Word by word (padaccheda)
Target जायायाः ṣaṣṭhī · ekavacanaSubstitute / term निङ् 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
जायायाः निङ्
Pāṇini leaves out words that carry over from earlier sūtras. Expand to see the rule as a reader actually understands it.
जायायाः → निङ्
Replace jāyāyāḥ with niṅ. Inherited words (anuvṛtti) may add further conditions.
Commentary
For the final of जाया is substituted निङ् in a बहुव्रीहि समास ।
Thus युवतिर्जाया यस्य = युवजानिः (जाया + निङ् = जाय् + निङ् = जा + नि, the य् being elided by 6.1.66. So also वृद्धजानिः ॥ There is punvad-bhava also.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.