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150 CONJUGATION [137tap heut, dabh harm, nam bend, pac couk, pat flj, yat 'stretch, yam' extend, rabh r/msp, labh ^a/rc, sak fee tt^^t',sap curse, sap seri'g. Examples are : pat : pet-atur ;sak :sek-iir.The two roots tan stretch and i>,2LGfollow join this class inthe AV.h. Four roots with medial a but initial guttural, syncopatetheir vowel: khan dig: ca-khn ; gam yo: ja-gm ; ghaseat :ja-ks ;ban smite : ja-ghn.Six other roots, though conforming to the conditionsdescribed above (2 a), syncopate the a instead of contracting :jan beget: ja-jn; tan stretch: ta-tn ; pan admire: pa-pn ;man think: ma-mn; van ivin: va-vn ;sac folloic: sa-sc.a. pat fly both contracts and syncopates in the RV. :pet and pa-pt.c.Eight roots containing the syllables ya, va, ra take:Samprasarana yaj " sacrifice, vac and vad s^jeak, vap stretv,vas chvell, vah carry, svap sleej^), grabh and grab seise;e. g. sii-sup, ja-grbh and ja-grh. In the first six, as theyreduplicate with i or u, the result is a contraction to i and u.Thus yaj: ij (= i-ij) vac : uc; (= u-uc).d. A few roots with medial a and penultimate nasal, dropthe latter: krand cry out: ca-krad ;tarns shake: ta-tas ;sk.ambh. prop : ca-skabh (AV.) ;stambh ^rqp: ta-stabh.c. Boots endingin a reduce it to i before consonantsand dropit before vowels ;e. g.dha place: dadhi-ma ;dadh-ur.'In the wk. perfect of yat and yam the contraction is based on thecombination of the full reduplicative syllable and the radical syllablewith Samprasarana : yet = ya-it, yem = ya-im.^From yaj occurs one form according to the contracting class (2 o) :yej-e.