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1032. Inflection: Present-System

Inflection: Present-System. The desiderative stem is conjugated in the present-system with perfect regularity, like other a-stems (733 a), in both voices, in all the modes (including, in the older language, the subjunctive), and with participles and imperfect. It will be sufficient to give here the first persons only. We may take as active model ईप्स īpsa seek to obtain, from √आप् āp obtain; as middle, तितिक्ष titikṣa endure, from √तिज् tij be sharp (see below, 1040).

1. Present Indicative.
active.middle.
s.d.p.s.d.p.
1ईप्सामि
ī́psāmi		ईप्सावस्
ī́psāvas		ईप्सामस्
ī́psāmas		तितिक्षे
títikṣe		तितिक्षावहे
títikṣāvahe		तितिक्षामहे
títikṣāmahe
etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.
2. Present Subjunctive.
1ईप्सानि
ī́psāni		ईप्साव
ī́psāva		ईप्साम
ī́psāma		तितिक्षै
títikṣāi		तितिक्षावहै
títikṣāvahāi		तितिक्षामहै
títikṣāmahāi
etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.
3. Present Optative.
1ईप्सेयम्
ī́pseyam		ईप्सेव
ī́pseva		ईप्सेम
ī́psema		तितिक्षेय
títikṣeya		तितिक्षेवहि
títikṣevahi		तितिक्षेमहि
títikṣemahi
etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.
4. Present Imperative.
2ईप्स
ī́psa		ईप्सतम्
ī́psatam		ईप्सत
ī́psata		तितिक्षस्व
títikasva		तितिक्षेथाम्
títiksetham		तितिक्षध्वम्
títiksadhvam
etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.
5. Present Participle.
ईप्सन्त् ī́psant (f.ईप्सन्ती ī́psantī)तितिक्षध्वम् títikṣadhvam
6. Imperfect.
1ऐप्सम्
āípsam		ऐप्साव
āípsāva		ऐप्साम
āípsāma		अतितिक्षे átitikṣeअतितिक्षावहि
átitikṣāvahi		अतितिक्षामहि
átitikṣāmahi
etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.

a. There are almost no irregularities of inflection to be reported from the older language. No 1st pl. in masi, or 2d pl. in thana or tana, is met with; of the impv. in tāt, only īpsatāt. The quotable subjunctive forms are those in sāni, sāt and sat, sān, and santa. KBU. has jijñāsīta (cf. 738 b). But the fem. pple síṣāsatī (instead of siṣāsantī) occurs once or twice in the older texts; and RV. has dídhiṣāṇa.

b. In the epics and later are found sporadic forms of the conjugation: thus, sisṛkṣmas (BhP.), titikṣmahe and bubhūṣate 3d pl. (MBb.); and the fem. participles lipsatī andcikīrṣatī (MBh.: against 449 b). The anomalous jighīṅsīyāt occurs also in MBh. and Vas.