26 STRUI TUHE OF VERBAL STEMS.
All thai we can expccl in the way i - after what lias
been said in the preceding 5, is : pres< at, an imperative,
and a future. The resl of the verbal work is y partici]
V"HW "ask," Present S. 1. TJ^Tfa, -• °^f%, 3. °^.
P. 1. tr^R, 2. TJ^f , 3. o^T-
°TJf. y/ ■& "do," Imperative S. 2. qR^ff , P. 1. oR^l?, P. 2. WK&.
^■?, ~~.
In the future, although the fomi with the characteristic and as ^fjrTT^Tf^= ^f^WfrT. Skr. y/ ^T, vet more commonly we find the form in which *?T has been softened to ^; thus
S. 1. gjftf^fa. -'• 3ifTfffa. 3. ^rtTflT' etc - The grammarians also u r i<' a
P. 1. hi ^ »> eGTOTF=^fKOTFT.
The participles resemble in mosl r in other
Prakrit dialects, but thai in cT^j becomes X$, as ^f^i llU( i ^rf^H=^ifT^ -W=Rzi ■ nrnd ends in fm, fnrrtT, and
a softened form fa; the ordinary form ^, which
will be found in several modern lai._
To the gerund rather than to the intl. onarians
would have it, seems to 1 . e form in T£$jt, as *!^F, the
cxai : which is doubtful, thou final ~j?,
there is an analogy in the true e *r^m^, which very
closely approach. s ^T^l?, ^Wf •
In addition to tl and in -
Apabhr; fragments of
popular speech arc to be picked < have
