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NOTES: III 162-180
THE IMPERATIVE.
173-176. Prakrit grammarians make hardly any distinction between Imperative, Potential, Optative and Conditional. The proper terminations of the Imperative however are the following:
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1st
मो
2nd
ह
3rd
न्तु
We thus got हसामु, हसमु, हसिमु, हसेमु etc. The terminations of the 2nd person are dropped after bases ending in अ.
मु
•, सु, इज्जसु, इज्जहि, इज्जे, हि
उ
177. ज and ज्जा for all persons and numbers are, according to this Satra, the terminations of the Present and the Future. अन्ये त्वन्यासामपीच्छन्ति, — According to some grammarians these terminations serve for all tenses and moods. So होज, होजा stand for भवति, भवेत्, भवतु, अभवत्, अभूत्, बभूव, भूयात्, भविता, भविष्यति and अभविष्यत्.
178. In the case of vowel-ending roots and are prefixed to all terminations of conjugation; e. g., होजई, होजाइ, होज्जहिइ, होजाहिइ, होज्जउ, होज्जाउ etc.
179-180. For the Conditional mood ( क्रियातिपत्ति ) .we have the same forms as for Optative in and . The present participle in and coupled with the auxiliary अस् also serves the purpose of the Conditional; o g, हरिणट्ठाणे etc.
हरिणस्थाने हरिणाङ्क यदि हरिणाधिपं न्यवेशयिष्यः ( निवेसन्तो सि ) । नासहिष्यथा एव तदा राहुपरिभवं अस्य जेतुः ( lit. जयतः)॥
"O moon, ( हरिणाङ्क ), had you placed lion ( हरिणाधिप ) ( on your body ) in place of the deer, you would not have suffered defeat from the eclipsing planet ( राहु ) से जिअन्तस्स presents a difficulty, राहु is called सैंहिकेय, the son of सिंहिका and might have been frightened by the lion on the disc of the moon if the moon had been सिंहाङ्क.
