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 * 1 || धारयेय
 * 1 || धारयेय


 * || etc. || etc. || etc.
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c. Optative forms are very rare in the oldest language (four in RV., two in AV.); they become more common in the Brāhmaṇas. A 3d sing. mid. in instead of  (cf. 738 b) occurs once in B. ( AB.), is not very rare in S. (a score or two of examples are quotable), and is also found in MBh. and later. Of a corresponding 3d pl. in only one or two instances can be pointed out ( AÇS.,  AGS.).

d. Imperative persons with the ending occur:  (AV.) and  (ÇB.) are 2d sing.;  (ÇB.) is 3d sing.;  and  (K. etc.), and  (TB.) are used as 2d pl. (K. etc.) is 2d pl., and the only known example of such an ending (see above, 549 b).

e. The feminine of the active participle is regularly and usually made in (449 c). But a very few examples in are met with (one in the older language:  Āpast.).

f. The middle participle in is made through the whole history of the language, from RV. (only ) down, and is the only one met with in the earlier language (for [sic !], MS. ii. 7. 12, is evidently a false reading, perhaps for ). But decidedly more common in the epics and later is one formed with : e. g., , ,. It is quotable from a larger number of roots than is the more regular participle in. As it occurs in no accentuated text, its accent cannot be given.