6.4.79
स्त्रियाः
Operational rule vidhi
The word 'स्त्री' gets an इयङ्-आदेश when followed by an अजादि प्रत्यय.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Target स्त्रियाः ṣaṣṭhī · ekavacana
- Target Ṣaṣṭhī (6th case): names what gets replaced, "in place of X" (1.1.49 षष्ठी स्थानेयोगा).
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Full reading
स्त्रियाः
Pāṇini leaves out words that carry over from earlier sūtras. Expand to see the rule as a reader actually understands it.
Commentary
इवङ् is substituted for the ई of स्त्री before an affix beginning with a vowel.
As स्त्री, स्त्रियौ, स्त्रियः; but स्त्रीणाम् the न् being added by a subsequent rule, supersedes this rule. The making this a separate sutra is for the sake of the subsequent aphorisms.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.