Optative. Middle. Sing. 1. vamsiṣīya¹ (van- ‘win', AV.). Pl. 1. pyāsiṣīmahi³ (AV.; VS. II. 14; MS. IV. 9¹0⁰ [p. 181, 9]). VII. VERB. AORIST SYSTEM. Du. 2. yāsiṣṭám. - Injunctive. Sing. I. ramsisam4 (SV.1.4. 1. 25). - Du. 2. hasiṣṭam (AV.). — 3. hāṣiṣṭām (AV.). - Pl. 2. hasiṣṭa (AV.). 3. häsiṣur (AV.). - - Imperative. Pl. 2. yäsista 5 (1. 165¹5). B. The sa- Aorist. DELBRÜCK, Verbum p. 179. AVERY, Verb-Inflection 262. Grammar 916-920; Roots 227. - v. NEGELEIN, Zur Sprachgeschichte 86. - — Imperative. Active. Du. 2. mrkṣatam (√mrj-). Middle. Sing. 2. dhuksásva (V duh-). 2. pāsiṣiṣṭhās². In the Mss. vamsisiya; see WHITNEY'S note on AV. IX. I¹4. 2 With precative s. 3 In the Mss. pyāśiṣīmahi; see WHITNEY'S note on AV. VII. 815. 535. In the Samhitas this form of the sigmatic aorist is taken by only nine roots, which end inj s or h and contain the medial vowels i u or r. The thematic a doubtless came to be employed in these few verbs to avoid a difficult agglomeration of consonants when the endings were added. The inflexion is like that of an imperfect of the á- class of the first conjugation, the -sá- being accented in unaugmented forms. Besides the indicative, only forms of the injunctive and imperative occur, altogether fewer than a dozen. No subjunctive, optative, or participial forms have been noted. Indicative. 536. Neither forms of any person of the dual nor of the 2. pl. occur in the indicative of this type of the s- aorist. The active forms greatly pre- dominate, the middle being represented in the 3. sing. and pl. by only three or four forms altogether. 4 Variant for rāsīya of the RV. 5 With 7 for i. AVEEY 261 gives the form as yāsiṣṭá. Indo-arische Philologie. L. 4. Active. Sing. 1. avrksam (Vvrh-). 2. adhukṣas (V duh-, VS. 1. 3), arukṣas (√ruh-, AV.); rukṣas (√ruh-, AV.).— 3. ákrukṣat (√kruś), aghukṣat (√guh-), adukṣat and ádhukṣat (√duh-), ámrkṣat (√mrś, AV.) árukṣat (Vruh-), ásprksat (V sprś, AV.; VS. xxvIII. 18). - Pl. 1. amrkṣāma (√mrj- 'wipe'), arukşāma (Vruh-, AV.). 3. ádhuksan (√duh-); duksan and dhukṣán (√duh-). Middle. Sing. 3. ádhukṣata; dukṣata8 and dhukṣata. — Pl. 3. amṛkṣanta (√mrj-). Injunctive. Active. Sing. 2. dukṣas, mṛkṣas (√ mṛś-). — 3. dvikṣat (√ dviṣ-, AV.). – Pl. 2. mrksata (√mrs-). Middle. Sing. 3. dukṣata and dhúkṣata (√duh-), dvikṣata (√dvis-, AV.). Pl. 3. dhukṣánta (√duh-). — - 385 WHITNEY, Sanskrit 3. yakṣatām (√yaj-). 6 Three forms occur accented thus; the root is, however, accented in dhúkṣata. 7 See above 32 b. 8 See above 32 b. 9 In IX. 1108 the form ádhukṣata seems to be a 3. pl. 25
