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 {|class=_sgtable !colspan=4|middle. ! ||s.|| d.|| p. ||भविषीवहि ||भविषीमहि
 * 1||भविषीय
 * 1||भविषीय

||भविषीयास्थाम् ||भविषीढ्वम्
 * 2||भविषीष्ठास्
 * 2||भविषीष्ठास्

||भविषीयास्ताम् ||भविषीरन्
 * 3||भविषीष्ट
 * 3||भविषीष्ट


 * }

a. The forms given by the grammarians as 2d and 3d dual are of very questionable value, as regards the place assigned to the sibilant. Those persons, and the 2d pl., have never been met with in use. For the question respecting the ending of the 2d pl., as or, see 226 c.

925. a. The precative active is a form of very rare occurrence in the classical language. In each of the texts already more than once referred to (Manu, Nala, Bhagavad-Gītā, Çakuntalā, Hitopadeça) it occurs once and no more, and not half-a-dozen forms have been found quotable from the epics. As to its value, see 573 c.

b. The precative middle is virtually unknown in the whole later literature, not a single occurrence of it having been brought to light. The BhP. has once, which is also a RV. form, belonging probably to the reduplicated aorist: see 870.

926. The uses of the aorist mode-forms (as has been already pointed out: 582) appear to accord with those of the mode-forms of the present-system. The predilection of the earlier language, continued sparingly in the later, for the augmentless forms in prohibitive expression after was sufficiently stated and illustrated above (579).

a. The tense-value of the aorist indicative has also been more than once referred to, and calls only for somewhat more of detail and for illustration here.

927. The aorist of the later language is simply a preterit, equivalent to the imperfect and perfect, and frequently coördinated with them.

a. Thus, (H.) thereupon he beat the donkey with a stick; and hereof the latter died;  (MBh.) thereupon she went back to Vidarbha; and her kindred paid her reverence;