A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v3.c17.41

v3.c17.41

Although the Pali grammarians, in their anxiety to exalt their sacred speech, tell us that the verb has ten conjugations, yet examples of all these are but rarely found.¹ Four of the ten Sanskrit conjugations, the first, fourth, sixth, and tenth, resemble each other very closely even in that language, and are easily brought down to one in Pali. The seventh of Sanskrit also loses somewhat of its peculiar type, which consists in inserting न् between the vowel of the root and the final consonant, or न् before weak terminations. Thus in Skr. √रुध् rudh, “to obstruct,” makes its present रुणद्धि runaddhi, but in Pali, while the न् is retained, the present is rundhati, after the type of the first class.