A compendious Sanskrit grammar; with a brief sketch of scenic Prákrit

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: ...is probably a contraction of bhdga-vant, and is inflected like it (see above). But, besides the regular Voc, an irregular, bhos (contracted from an older form bhdvas), is also used as a kind of voc. interjection. Thus:--N. bhdvan, A. bhdvantam, T. bhdvata, etc. Fem. stem bhdvatl. 139. drvant, m., 'steed' has the N. sing, ana (fr. drran). (5) Derivative Stems in (i)-vans:--140. These stems are all perf. participles inflected in the masc. and neut., and developing for the fem. a special stem in I (94. note 2). They have three forms: a strong in vans, a middle in vat, and the weakest in us (cf. 95. a), before which the'union-vowel i, if it occurs, is lost. The accent is always upon the stem-final. 141. Examples;--Trfw#T tasth-i-vdns, m. n. (fem. 140), 'having stood'; fg#i vid-vdns (irreg. perf. formation with pres. meaning: 247) 'knowing, wise '. Sing.: m. n. m. n. N. ftffcprpT Wffct f¥I fa tasthiran (35) tasthivdt vidxan vidrdt tasthirAns-am tasthirdt rMrdris-am vidtdt i. fmvx fttn tasthas-d vidiif-a Second Declension. 142. To the second declension belong all derivative vowelstems whether used singly or as final members in a compound, and also compounds which by a special change (81. b) come to end in a vowel. 143. Inflectional Endings.--The inflectional endings of all vowel-stems, save neuters in i and u (which, however, have their own peculiarities) differ more or less from those of the consonant-stems; and they are not even accordant as between different vowel-groups. Some of the endings are only euphonically (by coalescence) or apparently (by insertion of w, y) altered from those already described; but there are also two or three mutilated and some fifteen entirely new endings. These, in part only arbitrarily separated from the stem, are given below ...