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I(i7-I6sjLOCATIVE INFINITIVE 1954. Locative Infinitive.This form of the infinitive is rare ; hardly more thana dozen examples occur even if several doubtful forms areincluded.a. Five or six are locatives of radical stems :vy-us-i atthe daicning, sam-caks-i on leholdmj, drs-i and sam-drs-ion seeing, budh-i at the tcaldng. As these forms, however,have nothing distinctive of the infinitive and govern thegenitive only, they are rather to be regarded as ordinarylocatives of verbal nouns.J). From a stem in tar are formed dhar-tar-i to supportand vi-dhartar-i to bestoiv ;it is, however, doubtful whetherthese forms are genuine infinitives.c. The EV. has eight locatives from stems in san, witha genuine infinitive sense: ne-san-i to lead, par-san-i topass, abhi-bhu-san-i to aid, su-san-i to sivell, sak-san-ito abide (\/sac); with connecting i: tar-i-san-i ;fromjjresent stems : gr-ni-sani to sing, str-ni-san-i to spread.DERIVATIVE VERBS.I. Causatives.168. This is by far the commonest of the secondaryconjugations, being formed from more than two hundredroots in the Samhitfis and from about a hundred additionalones in the Brahmanas. Of about 150 causative stemsin the KV., however, at least one-third have not a causative,but an iterative sense. The whole formation may indeedoriginally have had an iterative meaning. This perhapsexplains how an iterative formation, the reduplicated aorist,specially attached itself to the causative. The same rootoccasionally forms both the iterative and the causative, aspat-aya-ti flies about and pat-aya-ti causes to flijbeside thesimi:)le verb pata-ti flies.o2