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85-8G] PEESENT PARTICIPLES 63J). The participles of verbs with a reduplicating presentbase, i. e. those of the third class (127, 2) and intensives(172), do not distinguish a strong stem,' in other words,have at throughout ;e, g. bibhyat fearing, ghanighn-atrepeatedly hilling (\/han). The analogy of these participlesis followed by a few others formed from unreduplicatedbases: das-at wor shipping, sas-at instructing; also daks-atand dhaks-at aor. part, of dah hum. A few others, again,originally participles, have come to be used as substantiveswith a shift of accent to the suffix. Three of these are f.and two m. :vahat,'^ sravat ^ f. stream ;vehat ^f. barren cow ;vaghat m. sacrificer ;sascat ' m. pursuer. Besides the firstthree substantives just mentioned there are no femininesexcept the ''adjective a-sascat unequalled when used as a f.Hardly any n. forms occur except from the old reduplicatedparticiple jag-at going, living (from ga go), used chiefly asa substantive meaningtlie animate ivorld. The inflexion ofthese reduplicated stems in at is like that of the compoundedradical t stems (77),the accent never shifting to the endings.The forms occurring if made from dadat giving (-/da)would be:Sing. N. m. n. dadat. A. m. dadat-am. I. dadat-a. D.dadat-e. G. dadat-as. L. dadat-i.Plur. N.A. dadat-as. I. dadad-bhis. G. dadat-am.86. The adjective stems formed with the suffixes -mantand -vant, which both mean possessing, are inflected exactlyalike and differ from the stems in -ant solely in lengtheningthe vowel of the suffix in the N. s. m.^ The V. of these stems1 Which ]ias been weakened because here the accent is regularlyon the reduplicative syllable,"^But vah-ant carrying as a participle.3But ST&v-&-nt * flowing. The derivation of this word is uncertain.But s^sc-at as a participle (from sac accompany).^* Lit. having no equal ;but ^-saseaut-i as tlie f. of the participle sascat.^The f. is formed with i from the weak stem :mat-i, vat-i (95).