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 considerable number of roots (in RV., more than a third of its instances; in AV., about a fifth) which have no causative stem in.

c. The causative aorist of √धृ, then, is as follows:

An example was inflected in full at 864.

1047. In a few cases, where the root has assumed a peculiar form before the causative sign — as by the addition of a or  (above, 1042 i ff.) — the reduplicated aorist is made from this form instead of from the simple root: thus,  from  (stem ) for √. Aorist-stems of this character from quasi-roots in are  (√),  or,  or , , , ; the only other example from the older language is  from  for √.

1048. But a few sporadic forms of an -aorist from causative conjugation-stems are met with: thus, (RV.; TS. has instead the wholly anomalous ),  and  (AV.),  and  (KBU.), in the older language (RV. has also  from a denominative stem); in the later,  (DKC.), and probably  (MBh.; for -: cf. 904 d). The passive 3d sing. , from the causative, has a late occurrence (Çatr.).

1049. A precative is of course allowed by the grammarians to be made for the causative conjugation: in the middle, from the causative stem with the auxiliary substituted for its final ; in the active, from the form of the root as strengthened in the causative stem, but without the causative sign: thus,

This formation is to be regarded as purely fictitious.

1050. Futures. Both futures, with the conditional, are made from the causative stem, with the auxiliary इ, which takes the place of its final अ. Thus: