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 701. Of the briefer 1st sing. act., RV. has and. Forms with double mode-sign occur (not in RV.): thus, and  (AV.);  (K.),  (VS.; but  in Kāṇva-text),  (ÇB.). On the other hand, is found once (in TS.). Forms like, met with now and then in the older texts, are doubtless to be regarded as false readings. RV. has in a single passage (instead of ); the only form in  is.

702. The combined endings (566) are added, as usual, to the weak tense-stem: thus,

a. From √, the middle optative would be — and so in other like cases.

703. The inflection of the imperative is in general like that in the preceding classes. As regards the 2d sing. act., the rule of the later language is that the ending हि is taken whenever the root itself ends in a consonant; otherwise, the tense- (or mode-) stem stands by itself as 2d person (for the earlier usage, see below, 704). An example of inflection is: