8.2.36
व्रश्चभ्रस्जसृजमृजयजराजभ्राजच्छशां षः
Operational rule vidhi
The laster letter of the word व्रश्च्, भ्रस्ज्, सृज्, मृज्, यज्, राज्, भ्राज् and शकारान्त / च्छकारान्त words gets षकारादेश at पदान्त, or when झल् letter is in front.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Target व्रश्च- भ्रस्ज- सृज- मृज- यज- राज- भ्राज- च्छ- शाम् ṣaṣṭhī · bahuvacanaSubstitute / term षः 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
व्रश्च-
Pāṇini leaves out words that carry over from earlier sūtras. Expand to see the rule as a reader actually understands it.
व्रश्च-
Replace vraśca-bhrasja-sṛja-mṛja-yaja-rāja-bhrāja-ccha-śām with ṣaḥ. Inherited words (anuvṛtti) may add further conditions.
Commentary
For the final consonants of 1. व्रश्च् 2. भ्रस्ज् 3. सृज् 4. मृज् 5. यज् 6. राज् and 7. भ्राज् and for the final छ and श , there is substituted ष् or at the end of a word.
Thus व्रश्च् :- व्रष्टा, व्रष्टुम्, व्रष्टव्यम्, मूलवृट् ॥ भ्रष्टा । भ्रष्टुम् । भ्रष्टव्यम् । धानाभृट् । सृज् । स्रष्टा । स्रष्टुम् । स्रष्टव्यम् । रज्जुसृट् । मृज । मार्ष्टा । मार्ष्टुम् । मार्ष्टव्यम् । कंसपरिमृट् । यज । यष्टा । यष्टुम् । यष्टव्यम् । उपयट् । राज् । सम्राट् । स्वराट्, विराट्, विभ्राट् ॥ The श ending words would have been changed to जश्-letters and the others to Gutturals; this sutra debars that by ordaining ष ॥ In मूलवृट् and धानाभृट् there is vocalisation by 6.1.16, the स् is elided by 8.2.19, and ष becomes जश्-letter ड्, which becomes र् by 8.4.56. The word शब्दप्राट् is formed by क्विप्, there is lengthening and no vocalisation.
The roots राज् and भ्राज् are never followed by a jhal beginning affix, because such affixes will always take इट् augment. These roots are, therefore, mentioned here, for the sake of the change of their ज् to ष्, when at the end of a word. Some, however, form nouns like राष्टिः, भ्राष्टिः with क्तिन् affix from these roots by 3.3.94, vartika, and इट् augment is prevented by 7.2.9.
Of roots ending in छ we have प्रच्छ :- प्रष्टा, प्रष्टुम्, प्रष्टव्यम्, शब्दप्राट् ॥ According to one view, the letter छ should not be mentioned in this sutra: for by 6.4.19, छ is always changed to श, and this श will be changed to ष by the present sutra. Others hold, that the change of छ to श by 6.4.19 is confined before कित् or ङित् affixes, and therefore the mention of छ is necessary in this sutra; moreover the ष् substitution here, and the श् substitution in 6.4.19. refer to the conjunct letter च्छ (with the augment तुक्). For if it were not so, then छ alone being changed to ष्, the त् of तुक् would be changed to ट्, and we should have पृट्ष्टः instead of पृष्टः ॥
Of roots ending in श् we have लिश् :- लेष्टा, लेष्टुम्, लेष्टव्यम्, लिट्; विश् :- वेष्टा, वेष्टुम्, वेष्टव्यम्, विट् ॥
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.