Wilson Philological Lectures on Sanskrit and the Derived Languages c8.76.3

c8.76.3

In the principal Prâkṛit the स्य is still further corrupted to हि, य being dissolved into इ and स changed to ह, as in होहिइ for भविष्यति, होहिन्ति for भविष्यन्ति, &c. In the first pers. we have, in addition to this हि, स्स which is lengthened as in Skr. and also its other form हा as well as सि for the whole as in the S'aurasenî, e. g., होहि-स्सा-हामि or होहिस्सं, &c. A beginning in the direction of the हि was, you will remember, made in Pâli. We have also a few petrified Skr. forms such as दच्छं for द्रक्ष्यामि, मोच्छं for मोक्ष्यामि which are more conditional than future in their origin; and to these as bases are added the terminations of the present and also of the future to form new futures; as दच्छइ, दच्छिहइ, &c. We have also काहं and दाहं from कृ and दा. The only Potential form left is that of the 3rd pers. sing.; as हसेज or हसेज्जा, होज्ज or होज्जा. The termination is the same as in Pâli, the य of the 3rd pers. sing. being altered to ज्, and the general form of the termination य्या to ज्जा. After bases ending in अ, ज् or ज्जा becomes एज or एज्जा, as in Skr. and Pâli.¹¹ This being an isolated form and derived from the Potential, which does not signify any particular time, it is used in the sense of the Present, Future, or Imperative in all numbers and persons; and after roots in अ the terminations सु and हि of the second pers. sing. of the Imperative are added to जा to make up new forms of that mood, as हसेजसु, हसेजाहि;