A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v3.c18.39
A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v3.c18.39
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In all these languages the idea of an infinitive glides off imperceptibly into that of a verbal noun, and the *Ba* form thus reveals its origin from the Sanskrit future passive participle in *tavya*, from which, as we have seen in Ch. III. § 51, many tenses are formed.