A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v3.c17.102

v3.c17.102

Those terminations which contain the vowel e have crept into the conjugation of all verbs from the tenth, to which that vowel, as shortened from aya, must be held strictly to belong, or to causals. Thus in Bhâg. i. 60, we have phâseti, pâleti, sobheti, tîreti, pûreti, kiṭṭeti, aṇupâlei, árâhei, for Sanskrit स्पर्शयति, पालयति, शोभयति, तारयति, पुरयति, कीर्त्तयति, अनुपालयति, आराधयति, respectively. In the last word the causal form becomes the same as the active given above. Of the imperative we have only the S. 2 and P. 2, which are in fact the only persons which an imperative can properly have. The S. 2 takes the ending हि as in Pali with junction vowels á and e, the P. 2 ends in ह, which, as Weber points out, is from the P. 2 of the present, in Sanskrit थ. Thus—