Bulletin of the Deccan College Research Institute June 1951-March 1952

Nirukta Chapter I); but even so we have to distinguish between two categories of the same: (A) those in the case of which the original root and other components are not directly discernible or in other words those in 'the case of which no analysis is immediately possible in the particular stage of the language and (B) those in whose case we can discern the original root and the suffixes it ha [...] The only endings normally met with in MIA are: -a -i and -u in the case of masculine and neuter substantives and -a -u and -a in the case of feminine substantives. [...] The stem gdvi is found in OIA also however it is used in compounds in MIA only.4 GULAB V. DAVANE 6. As MIA does not possess any vocable ending in a consonant all such stems which end in consonants in OIA are suitably changed to end in vowels in MIA e.g. [...] These fall into two main divisions: (i) agent nouns which denote the performer of the action contained in the root and (ii) action nouns which denote the performing of the action indicated by the root. [...] The active forms of these passive participles are formed in OIA with the secondary suffix -vant of which -n-or -t disappear in the course of declension in some particular cases.