Wilson Philological Lectures on Sanskrit and the Derived Languages c8.76.2

c8.76.2

of अस्.¹⁰ You will remember that a good many verbs are made up in the Pâli by adding forms of this root. Hemachandra notices also another termination of the 3rd pers. pl., viz. इरे, which is transferred from the Perfect. The Imperative forms are made up by adding दु S'aur. उ Pr. 3rd pers. sing. and न्तु pl.; and हि 2nd pers. sing. and ह S'aur. ह Pr. pl.; and मु 1st pers. sing. and मो pl. The original form of the root ending in अ is also used as the second pers. sing. Of these दु, न्तु, हि or अ, and सु from स्व Atm. are both Skr. and Pâli; ह (Skr. थ) transferred from the Present is used in Pâli; but मु and मो are peculiar to the Prâkṛit, the Pâli using only the terminations of its present. Of these मो is transferred from the Prâkṛit Present, and मु is made up by adding the उ which is peculiar to the Imperative and distinguishes it from the present. The first pers. pl. takes म also sometimes as in the Pâli, but it is not noticed by the grammarians. The consciousness that the future is made up by prefixing स्य=स्स Pr. & Pâli to the terminations of the present has never been lost, and whatever changes these terminations undergo are transferred to the future; so that the S'aurasenî and Mâgadhî future differs from the Pâli in those respects only in which the Present tenses of the two differ. The मि of the first person sing., however, is optionally changed to an anusvâra; or the anusvâra may be a remnant of the conditional terminations; as हसिस्सं.