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184 CONJUGATIONS [1601. na, which is taken by primary verbs only, is attachedto the (unweakened) root, which ends in a long vowel or oneof the consonants d and (rarely) c or j.Before this suffix,i and u remain unchanged a remains or is reduced to i or i ;;d isf becomes xr or (generally when a labial precedes) ur ;assimilated to n ;c and j revert to the original guttural.Thus li cling li-na du hum : : du-na; ;dra sleep: dra-na ;da tlivide : di-na ;haleave : hi-na ; gr swallow : gir-na ;mr crush: mur-na ; jr waste away: jur-na ;bhid S2)l'it:bhin-na; skand leap: skan-na ;vrasc cut up: vrk-na ;ruj hreaJ: :rug-na.«. Several roots take alternative forms iu ta : nun-na aucl nut-ta(Vnud) ; vin-na and vit-td (vid find) ; san-na- and sat-ta (sad sit) ;si-n^ and si-ta (sya coagulate) ; pr fill : pur-na and pur-ta ;sr cmsh :sir-nd, and sur-ta ; pre viix : -prg-na and prk-ta.b. The final palatal of pro viix, vrasc cut up and ruj break reverts tOthe guttural (cp. 160, 1).2. When ta is added direct the root tends to appear in itsweak form : verbs liable to Samprasarana take it a medial;or final nasal is lost ;a is often reduced to i or i ; ya sometimesto i. Examples are : ya-ta, ji-ta, bhi-ta, stu-ta,hu-ta, kr-ta; nas-ta (\/nas he lost), sik-ta (7 sic), yuk-ta(^^yuj), gu-dha(N/guh)/ dug-dha (A/duh), srs-ta (/sfj) ;is-ta (\/yaj), vid-dha (^/vyadh), uk-ta (/vac), u-dha(Vvah),-' sup-ta(v/svap), prs-ta (Vprach) ak-ta (/anj),;ta-ta (-v/tan), ga-ta (/gam); pi-ta (pasthi-tadrinJi),(V'stha);vi-ta(\/vy&).a. The root dha pittis doubly weakened in hi-tfi beside -dhi-ta.Medial a is reduced to i in sis-ta (sas order). Syncopation and loss ofs appear in -g-dha eaten (^ghas).^b. Excepting the occurrence of the normal form -data in the compoundtva-data given by thee, da give regularly uses the weak pres.1 With corebralization and aspiration of the suffix, loss of the radicalfinal and lengthening of the radical vowel (cp. 62, 69 c)."With the same changes as in gudha after vah-ta has been reducedby Samprasarana to uh-t^. *Cp. p. 170, note 7.