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 Examples are: active, ; — middle,. No middle participle shows the dissyllabic reduplication.

1013. a. On account of their accent,, and (beside ) are probably to be regarded as perfect participles, although no other perfect forms with heavy reduplication from the same roots occur. The inference is, however, rendered uncertain by the unmistakably intensive and  (beside ). As to etc., see 806 a.

b. The RV. has once, gen. sing., with root-vowel cast out; appears to be used once for ; if  is to be referred to √ (Grassmann), it is the only example of an intensive from a root in , and its accent is anomalous. (AB.) is perhaps a false reading; but forms with the nasal irregularly retained are found repeatedly in the epics and later: thus, (MBh.),  (MBh. R.),  (BhP.),  (R.).

1014. The imperfect is regularly inflected as follows:

1015. The imperfect forms found in the earlier texts are not numerous. They are, including those from which the augment is omitted, as follows: in active, 1st sing., ; 2d sing., ; 3d sing., ; 2d du., ; 1st pl., ; 3d pl., ; and, with auxiliary, in 3d sing., ; and, irregularly, in 3d du.,. The middle forms are extremely few: namely, 3d sing., (with loss of the final radical in a weak form of root); 3d pl., and  (which, if it belongs here, shows a transfer to an -stem).