7.1.14
सर्वनाम्नः स्मै
Operational rule vidhi
The ङे-प्रत्यय attached to an अदन्त सर्वनाम get an आदेश 'स्मै'.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Left context सर्वनाम्नः pañcamī · ekavacanaSubstitute / term स्मै prathamā · ekavacana
- Left context Pañcamī (5th case): "after X", the operation applies to what follows (1.1.67 तस्मादित्युत्तरस्य). Also used for limits and sources.
- 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
सर्वनाम्नः स्मै
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Commentary
After a Pronominal अङ्ग (stem) ending in अ , स्मै is substituted for the Dative -4th Case ending ए।
As सर्वस्मै, विश्वस्मै, यस्मै, कस्मै, तस्मै ॥ But भवते where the Pronoun does not end in अ ॥ When अश् is substituted for इदम् 2.4.32 in anvadesa sentences, then we have the form अस्मै ॥ But in अत्र इदम् + ङे = अत्र अ + ए = अत्रा + ए, here the preceding word ends in आ and we could not have ए replaced by स्मै ॥ Therefore we infer that स्मै being an antaranga operation should be substituted first, and the sandhi afterward and we get अत्रास्मै ॥ (See 7.2.102) for the change of यद्, तद् &c into य, त &c). The change of ए into स्मै is antaranga as it depends upon one word, while the एकादेश long आ is bahiranga because it is an operation depending upon two words.
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.