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 a. Thus, from the roots इ and आस् :

b. From the roots and  and :

618. The 2d sing. act. ending is found in the older language in a few verbs of this class: namely,. In 3d sing. mid., two or three verbs have in the older language the ending : thus, (only RV. case), ; and in 3d pl. mid. AV. has and. The use of for  in 2d pl. act. is quite frequent in the Veda: thus,, etc. And in , we have examples in the same person of a strong (and accented) stem.

619. a. The active participle has the ending अन्त् (weak stem-form अत् ) added to the unstrengthened root. Mechanically, it may be formed from the 3d pl. by dropping the final इ. Thus, for the verbs inflected above, the active participles are यन्त्, दुहन्त् , द्विषन्त् , लिहन्त्. The feminine stem ends usually in अती : thus, यती, दुहती , द्विषती , लिहती : but, from roots in , in आन्ती  or आती  (449 g).