a. Such are the verbs forming their present-stem by reduplication without added a: namely, those of the reduplicating or hu-class (655) and the intensives (1012): thus, from √hu, present-stem juhu, participle-stem júhvat; intensive-stem johu, intensive participle-stem jóhvat. Further, the participles of roots apparently containing a contracted reduplication: namely, cákṣat, dā́çat, dā́sat, çā́sat, sáçcat; the aorist participle dhákṣat, and vāghát (?). Vavṛdhánt (RV., once), which has the n notwithstanding its reduplication, comes, like the desiderative participles (1032), from a stem in a: compare vāvṛdhánta, vāvṛdhásva.
b. Even these verbs are allowed by the grammarians to make the nom.-acc.-voc. pl. neut. in anti.
445. The inflection of these stems is quite regular. The nom. sing. masc. comes to end in अन् an by the regular (150) loss of the two final consonants from the etymological form अन्त्स् ants. The vocative of each gender is like the nominative.
446. Stems accented on the final syllable throw the accent forward upon the case-ending in the weakest cases (not in the middle also).
a. In the dual neut. (as in the feminine stem) from such participles, the accent is ántī if the n is retained, atī́ if it is lost.
447. Examples of declension. As such may serve भवन्त् bhávant being, अदन्त् adánt eating, जुह्वत् júhvat sacrificing. Thus:
| Singular: | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N. | भवन् bhávan |
भवत् bhávat |
अदन् adán |
अदत् adát |
जुह्वत् júhvat |
जुह्वत् júhvat |
| A. | भवन्तम् bhávantam |
भवत् bhávat |
अदन्तम् adántam |
अदत् adát |
जुह्वतम् júhvatam |
जुह्वत् júhvat |
| I. | भवता bhávatā |
अदता adatā́ |
जुह्वता júhvatā | |||
| D. | भवते bhávate |
अदते adaté |
जुह्वते júhvate | |||
| Ab. G. | भवतस् bhávatas |
अदतस् adatás |
जुह्वतस् júhvatas | |||
| L. | भवति bhávati |
अदति adatí |
जुह्वति júhvati|- | |||
