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 312. 313. Tmesis. § 311-314. be occasionally used, as is mentioned by Vâmana; see Váma- na's Stilregeln by CAPPELLER, Cabdaçuddhi s. 12. 235 and are also auxiliaries in another sense, in as far as they help to form periphrastic tenses, as the periphrastic perfect (333), the future in, the durative (378), etc. The same may be said of some others as fag, adà,, when signifying the durative, see 378. The ancient dialect had the faculty of severing preposition and verb in compound verbs, the so-called tmesis ¹). The sacred texts from the mantras up to the sutras abound in examples. The greatest freedom is of course found in the sanbitas. Ait. Br. 1, 21, 7 3umftart: fumat: T° 3, Ch. Up. 5, 3, 1 O fort, Åpast. 1, 25, 10 pà faiza arà gard. Classic Sanskrit has lost this faculty 2). CHAPT. II. On voices. GM 314. The Sanskrit verb has three voices: the active (TT- - The three ), the medial (464) and the passive. voices of the Of these, the active is formally different from the other Sans- krit two, but the medial and passive voices have many forms verb. in common. The perfect may be = „he made [for ash himself]” as well as he was made," the future is either he will bear [for himself]" or " he will be 1) P. 1, 4, 80–82 à qmetaì: 1pfa dèff these [viz. the upasargas and gatis] are put before the root; but in sacred texts (chandas) also behind and separated from it by other words." 2) Perhaps something like a remnant of the antique tmesis may oc- casionally be met with. In my notes, I find two passages regarding us here: Mudr. I, p. 20 and R. 2, 9, 28 sera.