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24 STRUCTURE OF VERBAL STEMS.

The following are a few examples : M«^^H "look thou !" TJTRT^Ef " bow thou !" ^V " hear ye." oTTO " go ye." ^Sf^J " go away." "^Tll'slVI " get out of the way !' c«%I " do." Srnfa " wake up." The future most usually exhibits the form of the Sanskrit present in ^TZf = ^r.

s. i. frfwrfa, 2. ftfwfir, 3. o^rr-

p- i- °i«*n*ft, 2. o^wtr, 3. °^$rfa. etc. °*[W-

This form is used indifferently with roots of all classes as in Pali, but here also there still subsist some traces of a future formed without the intermediate ^. Yararuchi (vii. 16, 17 | gives the following : —

Skr. ^^"hear," fut. ^UHfot -

l/*P^ "speak," „ ^^Tf*T-

M"go," ,, [*}<srrf*f

V^fweep," „ Ved. f|^Jlf*i.

Vfafl["know," „ %(^nfR.

These forms are, however, justly regarded as exceptions; for the rule in scenic, as in other, Prakrit* is to retain throughout the root-form of the present. The regular type of the future is that in ism-, and the above words have also a future formed in the regular way, *jfWT, *TfTOT, Tfara^, etc. This m

1 Some of these are Magadhi Prakrit, but for my present purpose it is not neces- sary to draw a distinction between Mugadhi and f^urastni.

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