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932. The tense-sign of this future is the syllable स्य, added to the root either directly or by an auxiliary vowel इ (in the latter case becoming इष्य ). The root has the -strengthening. Thus, from √दा give is formed the future tense-stem दास्य ; from √इ  go, the stem एष्य ; from √दुह्  milk, the stem धोक्ष्य ; from √भू  be, the stem भविष्य ; from √ऋध्  thrive, the stem अर्धिष्य ; and so on.

a. But from √ live the stem is, from √ sprinkle it is , and so on (240).

b. There are hardly any Vedic cases of resolution of the tense-sign into ; RV. has once.

933. This tense-stem is then inflected precisely like a present-stem ending in अ (second general conjugation: 733 a). We may take as models of inflection the future of √दा give, and that of √कृ  make. Thus: a. In the epics are found occasional cases of 1st du. and pl. in and : e. g.  (R.),  (causative: MBh.);  (MBh.),  (R.).

934. With regard to the use or non-use of the auxiliary vowel before the sibilant, there is a degree of general accordance between this tense and the other future and the desiderative; but it is by no means absolute, nor are any definite rules to be laid down with regard to it (and so much the less, because of the infrequency of the two latter formations in actual use): between this and the aorist (