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151-152]SIMPLE FUTURE 177a. Causatives, which always take isya, retain the present stem,dropping only the final a ;thus dharay-isyS (dhr support); vasay-iayfi(vas wear) ; dus-ay-isyd, (dus spoil) ; varay-isyfi (vr cover).b. The inflexion of the future is like that of the present ofthe first conjugation (bhavami).Middle forms occur in thesing. only. The forms met with, if made from kr do,would be :Act. s. 1. kar-isyami. 2. kar-isyasi. 3. kar-isyati.Du. 2. kar-isyathas. 3. kar-isyatas. PI. 1. kar-isyamas,-masi. 2. kar-isyatha. 3. kar-isyanti.Mid. s. 1. kar-isy6. 2. kar-isyase. 3. kar-isyate.1.Only one subjunctive, the 2. s, act. kar-isyas, hasbeen met with in V., and one other, 1. du. mid., not-syavahai(nud imsli) in B.2. More than twenty participles occur, of which only fourare mid. Examples are :Act. kar-isy-ant, dhak-sy-ant (-/dah) ;mid. yak-syamana(Vyaj), stavisya-mana (-/stu).Irregularities.c. In su bring forth the future stem is formed with unchanged finalvowel, which is moreover accented : su-sya while the medial a of sah;is lengthened sak-syd.:Periphrastic Future.152. There is no certain example of this form of thefuture in the Samhitas. But such a phrase as anv-agantayajnapatir vo atra (TS., VS.) the sacrifice)' is folloiving afteryou here may be an example of its incipient use.^In B. this future is taken by nearly thirty roots. It is made byusing the N. s. of an agent noun in tr (ISO), to which the present ofthe verb as be is added in the 1. 2. persons, while in the 3. persons du.and pi. the N. du. and pi. appear. The use of this tense-form is1 The forerunners in V. of this new tense-formation in B. are theagent nouns in tr which, generally accented on the root, are usedpartieipially governing an ace. and may be employed predicativelywith or without the copula ;e. g. data yo v^nita magh^m (iii. 13') whogives and wins bounty.1819 N