8.3.90
सूत्रं प्रतिष्णातम्
Operational rule vidhi
The word प्रतिष्णात is irregularly formed when meaning 'sūtra'.
Word by word (padaccheda)
Substitute / term सूत्रम् prathamā · ekavacanaSubstitute / term प्रतिष्णातम् prathamā · ekavacana
- Substitute / term Prathamā (1st case): in operational rules, the substitute or the thing introduced; in definitions, the term or its referent.
Full reading
सूत्रम् प्रतिष्णातम्
Pāṇini leaves out words that carry over from earlier sūtras. Expand to see the rule as a reader actually understands it.
Commentary
The word प्रतिष्णात is irregularly formed when meaning 'sūtra'.
Thus प्रतिष्णातः सूत्रम् i. e. शुद्धम् 'pure'. When it has not this meaning we have प्रतिस्नातं = 'bathed'
Śrīśa Chandra Vasu, The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (1897), via ashtadhyayi.com.