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ig yaNas samprasAraNam

इग्यणः संप्रसारणम् ONPANINI 11045

Replacing /yaN with /ik is called "stretching" (/samprasAraNa).

This is a /paribhASA.

Example. According to this rule, when rule vacisvapiy... teaches us that —

"stretch yaj यज् before /kta"

that diects us to replace the y य् in yaj यज् with i इ. So we get —

yaj यज् + /kta
→ i इ + aj अज् + ta त by vacisvapiy... and this rule ...

Whenever this rule works, rule samprasAraN... inmediately bites off whatever vowel was after the stretched vowel, like this —

...
→ i इ + j ज् + ta- तॱ by samprasAraN...

→ **iSTa- इष्टॱ "sacrificed", by other rules

This samprasAraN... always triggers after this rule, because otherwise ikoyaNaci would mess things up. So, to save space, I won't mention samprasAraN... and will just type —

yaj यज् + /kta
→ ij इज् + /kta by vacisvapiy...
→ **iSTa- इष्टॱ by other rules

Some examples with v व् r र् replaced with u उ R ऋ —

vac- वच् + /kta → **ukta- उक्तॱ

pracch- प्रच्छ् + /kta → **pRSTa- पृष्टॱ

Why do we call those vowels "stretched"?

Replacing i इ with y य् is common — as when we join dadhi दधि with atra अत्र, and we get **dadhyatra दध्यत्र. This replacement of i इ, which is one /mAtrA long, with shorter y य्, can be called a "shrinking". So, the unusual reverse replacement of y य् with i इ may properly be called a "stretching".