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 b. The middle participle has the ending आन, added to the unstrengthened root: thus, इयान , दुहान , द्विषाण  ,   लिहान.

c. The root forms the anomalous and isolated  (in RV. also ).

d. But a number of these participles in the older language have a double accent, either on the ending or on the radical syllable: thus, and  and  and  (also ),  and  and  and  and  and  — the last having in part also a strong form of the root.

620. This tense adds the secondary endings to the root as increased by prefixion of the augment. The root has the -strengthening (if capable of it) in the three persons of the singular active, although the accent is always upon the augment. Examples of inflection are:

a. From the roots इ and आस् :

b. From the roots and  and :

621. a. Roots ending in may in the later language optionally take  instead of  in 3d pl. act. (the being lost before it); and