7.2.111

इदोऽय् पुंसि

लघुसिद्धान्तकौमुदी 272 · प्रकरण 8, which opens at हो ढः · rule 23 of 108 in it

इद् becomes अय् in the masculine

In the masculine nominative singular of इदम्, the इद् portion becomes अय्, which with the ending gives अयम् "this (man)". The rule fixes the shape of the commonest form of the near-demonstrative, the one a reader meets first.

• Aṣṭādhyāyī — 7.2.111 इदोऽय् पुंसि
• Bālānandinī (LSK, Telugu) — सूत्र 272 in the abridgement; vendor/balanandini-lsk-telugu-ocr.txt

uncheckeddrafted from the rule text and the Bālānandinī

वरदराज writes under it

इदम इदोऽय् सौ पुंसि। अयम्। त्यदाद्यत्वे॥