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 26 STRUI TUHE OF VERBAL STEMS.

All thai we can expccl in the way i - after what lias

been said in the preceding 5, is : pres< at, an imperative,

and a future. The resl of the verbal work is y partici]

V"HW "ask," Present S. 1. TJ^Tfa, -• °^f%, 3. °^.

P. 1. tr^R, 2. TJ^f, 3. o^T-

°TJf. y/ ■& "do," Imperative S. 2. qR^ff, P. 1. oR^l?, P. 2. WK&.

^■?,.

In the future, although the fomi with the characteristic and as ^fjrTT^Tf^= ^f^WfrT. Skr. y/ ^T, vet more commonly we find the form in which *?T has been softened to ^; thus

S. 1. gjftf^fa. -'• 3ifTfffa. 3. ^rtTflT' etc - The grammarians also u r i<' a

P. 1. hi ^ »> eGTOTF=^fKOTFT.

The participles resemble in mosl r in other

Prakrit dialects, but thai in cT^j becomes X$, as ^f^i llU( i ^rf^H=^ifT^ -W=Rzi ■ nrnd ends in fm, fnrrtT, and

a softened form fa; the ordinary form ^, which

will be found in several modern lai._

To the gerund rather than to the intl. onarians

would have it, seems to 1. e form in T£$jt, as *!^F, the

cxai : which is doubtful, thou final ~j?,

there is an analogy in the true e *r^m^, which very

closely approach. s ^T^l?, ^Wf •

In addition to tl and in -

Apabhr; fragments of

popular speech arc to be picked < have