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 a. Such are the verbs forming their present-stem by reduplication without added : namely, those of the reduplicating or -class (655) and the intensives (1012): thus, from √, present-stem, participle-stem ; intensive-stem , intensive participle-stem. Further, the participles of roots apparently containing a contracted reduplication: namely,, , , , ; the aorist participle , and (?). (RV., once), which has the notwithstanding its reduplication, comes, like the desiderative participles (1032), from a stem in : compare,.

b. Even these verbs are allowed by the grammarians to make the nom.-acc.-voc. pl. neut. in.

445. The inflection of these stems is quite regular. The nom. sing. masc. comes to end in अन् by the regular (150) loss of the two final consonants from the etymological form अन्त्स्. The vocative of each gender is like the nominative.

446. Stems accented on the final syllable throw the accent forward upon the case-ending in the weakest cases (not in the middle also).

a. In the dual neut. (as in the feminine stem) from such participles, the accent is if the  is retained,  if it is lost.

447. Examples of declension. As such may serve भवन्त् being, अदन्त्  eating, जुह्वत्  sacrificing. Thus: