6.1.197
ञ्नित्यादिर्नित्यम्
Operational rule vidhi
The word ending in a ञित् or a नित् प्रत्यय become आद्युदात्त.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Right context ञ्निति saptamī · ekavacanaSubstitute / term आदिः prathamā · ekavacanaSubstitute / term नित्यम् prathamā · ekavacana
- Right context Saptamī (7th case): "when X follows", the operation applies to what precedes (1.1.66 तस्मिन्निति निर्दिष्टे पूर्वस्य). Also a condition or domain ("in the sense of").
- 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
ञ्निति आदिः नित्यम्
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Commentary
Whatever is derived with an affix having an indicatory ञ् or न् , has the acute accent invariably on the first syllable.
Thus गा꣡र्ग्य with यञ् 4.1.105, वा꣡सुदेवकः, अ꣡र्जुनकः with थुन् 4.3.98. This is an exception to 3.1.3. When the affixes are, however, elided, the word loses this accent, i. e. the affix does not leave its mark behind, as it generally does by 1.1.62. Therefore गर्गाः꣡, बिदाः꣡, चञ्चाः꣡ having lost यञ्, अञ् and कन्, have lost their accent also.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.