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 from √ all the forms for which examples have been noted as actually occurring in the older language.

687. The RV. has once, which is anomalous as being made from the weak tense-stem. Forms with double mode-sign are met with: thus, (AV.),  and  (ÇB.); and the only quotable example of 3d du. act. (besides ) is (ÇB.). ÇB. has also as 1st du. act.: an elsewhere unexampled form.

688. The optative is made, as elsewhere, by adding the compounded mode-endings to the weak form of present-stem. Thus:

a. AB. has once the anomalous 1st sing. act. . And forms like, are here and there met with in the epics ( once in GGS.). MBh., too, has once.

689. In this class (as the roots all end in consonants) the ending of the 2d sing. act. is always धि.