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735. The endings and the rules for their combination with the stem have been already fully given, for this and the other parts of the present-system; and it only remains to illustrate them by examples.

a. Example of inflection: root भू be; stem भव  (: 131).

b. The V. has but a single example of the -ending, namely (and no other in any class of this conjugation). The 1st pl. mid. (RV., once) is probably an error. RV. has once as 3d singular.

736. The mode-stem is. Subjunctive forms of this conjugation are very numerous in the older language; the following scheme instances all that have been found to occur.

737. The 2d du. mid. does not chance to occur in this class; and is the only example of the 3d person. No such pl. mid. forms as are made from any class with stem-final ; such as  (which are very common) are, of course, properly augmentless imperfects. The Brāhmaṇas (especially ÇB.) prefer the 2d sing. act. in and the 3d in. AB. has the 3d sing. mid. ; and a 3d pl. in ( KB.) has been noted once. RV. has examples, and, of the briefer 1st. sing. act.