6.4.50
क्यस्य विभाषा
Operational rule vidhi
The elision of य of he Denominative अङ्ग (stem) (क्य) is optional when preceded by a consonant and followed by an आर्धधातुक affix.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Target क्यस्य ṣaṣṭhī · ekavacanaSubstitute / 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
क्यस्य
Pāṇini leaves out words that carry over from earlier sūtras. Expand to see the rule as a reader actually understands it.
क्यस्य → optional
Replace kyasya with vibhāṣā, optionally. Inherited words (anuvṛtti) may add further conditions.
Commentary
The elision of य of he Denominative अङ्ग (stem) (क्य) is optional when preceded by a consonant and followed by an आर्धधातुक affix.
The क्य denotes the affixes क्यच् and क्यङ् ॥ Thus समिध्यिता or समिधिता, दृषद्यिता or दृषदिता meaning समिधमात्मन इच्छति or समिध इवाचरति &c.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.