A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v3.c18.3

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Sanskrit has two forms of this participle, one in त्वा, as भूत्वा "having been," the other in य, as संभूय "having met." Each of these forms has left descendants in the modern languages, and although the form in *ya* is, in classical Sanskrit, restricted, for the most part, to compound verbs, yet this peculiarity has been overlooked in the spoken languages, and simple verbs, as well as compound ones, are treated as having this form also.