A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v3.c17.52
A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v3.c17.52
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Among the tenses the chief is the present, and it is in Pali that we first find a tendency to retain throughout the whole verb that form of the root which is in use in the present. This tendency grows stronger in the later Prakrits, and becomes an almost invariable rule in the modern languages. Thus—