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 not in the -future. The few forms which occur in the older language agree with these statements.

944. In the third persons, the nom. masc. of the noun, in the three numbers respectively (373), is used without auxiliary: thus, भविता he or she or it will be; भवितारौ  both will be; भवितारस्  they will be. In the other persons, the first and second persons present of √अस् be (636) are used as auxiliary; and they are combined, in all numbers, with the singular nom. masc. of the noun.

a. Thus, from √दा give:

b. Occasionally, in the epics and later (almost never in the older language), the norm of the tense as given above is in various respects departed from: thus, by use of the auxiliary in the 3d person also; by its omission in the 1st or 2d person; by inversion of the order of noun and auxiliary; by interposition of other words between them; by use of a dual or plural nom. with the auxiliary; and by use of a feminine form of the noun. Examples are: (MBh.) he will speak;  (MBh.) I shall or thou wilt strike down,  (R.) I shall fight,  (MBh.) I shall see,  (BhP.) I will do for thee,  (MBh. Megh.) thou wilt be;  (MBh.) I shall go;  (MBh.) I will receive her,  (MBh.) thou wilt slay;  (MBh.) we two shall do;  (MBh.) I (f.) shall see,  (Nāiṣ.) she will increase,  (Y.) she will go. AB. has once as 2d sing., thou wilt press; JUB. makes the combination the cemeteries will be.

c. An optative of the auxiliary appears to be once used, in I would fight (R. i. 22. 25 Peterson; but the Bombay edition reads ).

945. The accent in these combinations, as in all the ordinary cases of collocation of a verb with a preceding predicate noun or