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738. The scheme of optative endings as combined with the final of an -stem was given in full above (566).

a. The RV. has once the 3d pl. mid. (for one other example, see 752 b). AV. has from √.

b. A few instances are met with of middle 3d persons from -stems in and (very rarely), instead of  and. For convenience, they may be put together here (excepting the more numerous causative forms, for which see 1043 c); they are (so far as noted) these: S. and later,  S.,  S.;  S.,  U.,  AB. S. and S.,  U. An active form  C. is isolated and anomalous.

739. An example of the imperative inflection is:

740. The ending in 2d pl. act. is as rare in this whole conjugation as is in the present: the V. affords only  in the -class (and  in the -class: 760 c). The ending of 2d sing. act., on the other hand, is not rare; the RV. has ; to which AV. adds ; and the Brāhmanas bring other examples. MS. has twice (parallel texts both times ): compare similar cases in the -class: 752 c.