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ACCENT IN DECLENSION 459followed by the old participles mahant greatand brhantlofty ; e. g. mahat-a (but mahad-bhis).4. In the EV. derivatives formed with accented -ancthrow the acute forward on vowel endings in the weak caseswhen the final syllable contracts to ic or uc ; e.g. praty-ancturned towards :pratic-a(but pratyak-su) anv-aho; following:anuc-as ;hut pr&ho forward: prac-i.^4. Verbal Accent.12. a. The augment invariably bears the acute,if theverb is accented at all (19) ;e. g. inipf. a-bhavat ;aor.a-bhut ; plup. a-jagan ;cond. a-bharisyat. The accentuationof the forms in which the augment is dropped (usedalso as injunctives)is as follows. The imperfect accents thesame sj'llable as the present e. ;g. bharat bharati bhinat : :;bhinatti. The pluperfect accents the root ; e. g.cakan(3. s.) namamas, tastambhat : ;tatananta ;but in the3. pi. also occur cakrpanta, dadhrsanta.The aorist is variously treated. The s and the is formsaccent the root;e. g.vam-s-i (van win) sams-is-am. The;root aorist (including the passive form) accents the radicalvowel in the sing, active, but the endings elsewhere e. ; g.3. s. vark (\/vrj); pass. v6d-i ;2. s. mid. nut-thas. Theaorists formed with -a " or -sa accent those syllables ; e. g.ruham, vidat ;budhanta ;dhuk-sa-nta. The reduplicatedaorist accents either the reduplicated syllable e. ; g. ninasas,piparat, jijanan or the;root, as piparat, sisnathat.h. Present System. The accent in the a conjugation(as in the a declension) remains on the same syllablethroughout: on the radical syllable in verbs of the first andfourth classes, on the affix in the sixth (125) e. ; g. bhavati ;nahyati ;tudati.>In the other Samhitas, however, the accent is generally retainedon the stem ;tlius the AV. forms the f. stem pratic-i (RV. pratTc-f).^In the a aorist several forms are found accenting tlie root; e.g.aranta, sddatam, s6.nat.