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APPENDIX
138-182. This group of rules treats of Conjugation of Verbs.
138. क्यङ् and क्य ङ्क्ष are the two terminations which make denominatives, i. e., verbs from nouns. In Sk., is retained but in Prakrit this J is dropped.' FATHI is a kind of kettle drum from which we have the denominative THदमाइ or दमदमाअइ.
139-145. These Sūtras give the scheme of terminations of the Present tense. It is to be noted that the consonant ending roots in Sk. take 34 and thus become 34 ending in Prakrít. There is no distinction of the CREÀ 1€ and strate as also of the ten tots as in Sk. The sending base changes its 37 to 5 optionally before the terminations of the Present, Imperative and Optative. There are only three tenses, Present, Past and Future, and three moods, Imperative, Optative and Conditional, called respectively adalar, tar and stiacerdi; and qua, H and Fisiatier. The Present serves the purpose of all the tenses, Optative of all tenses and moods. In literature however the forms of finite verbs are rarely used, the past passive participle with the auxiliary verb serving their purpose.
THE PRESENT TENSE 1 st person .
, , A." 2nd person
Tì, a ca, 6. 3rd person
, T FT, a, st. Of these terminations è is added to verbs ending in 37 only. (1) Before fH the ending 37 of the root is optionally changed to 31. (2) Before 1, 9, # the ending 37 of the root is optionally changed to 31 and 5. (3) The ending 37 of the root is optionally changed to g before all terminations. Thus from # we have in the 1st person, EAIA GATH, Cal and even i see III. 141 ) and so on.
