A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v3.c17.60

v3.c17.60

In this tense, as in many others, Pali is not very instructive, it clings too closely to the Sanskrit. It is, however, necessary to give a sketch of its forms, because they exhibit the first traces of that gradual change which has led to the modern conjugation. Even when the Pali conjugates a verb according to any class other than the Bhû, it still keeps the personal endings of Sanskrit for that conjugation; thus from √ या “go,” we have—