II. — On the Propriety of Retaining the Eighth 

 Verb-Class in Sanskrit. 



By a. H. EDGREN. 



Doubts concerning the propriety of retaining the Hindu 

 classification of the so-called /(^ //-verbs in a special conjuga- 

 tion date as far back as Bopp. The first, however, to devote 

 to the subject a careful investigation was Brugman in his 

 article Die acJite conjiigations-classc des altindischcn ttnd iJire 

 cjitsprechung iin gricchischen (Kuhn's Zeitschr. XXIV.), where 

 he tried to prove — except ior kar- — the identity of the ta7i 

 (VIII.) and su- (V.) classes, on principles of which I shall speak 

 later. He was followed by a Belgian savant, Professor Van den 

 Gheyn, who also tried to establish the same identity, but on 

 principles wholly different in nature from those adopted by 

 Brugman. Having myself, for the preparation of my brief 

 Sanskrit grammar (Triibner, 1884), made an independent in- 

 vestigation of this subject of the tan-vcxhi^, and for the first 

 time in any similar work classified them with the i-//-verbs 

 as forming with these one class with the present-sign -no, 

 I put my notes together in a brief paper (' On the verbs 

 of the so-called ta7i-c\?i&s in Sanskrit '), which I presented at 

 the meeting of the American Oriental Society in May, 1885, 

 and which was subsequently reported in the proceedings of 

 that society. My short remarks, in which I took issue espe- 

 cially with Van den Gheyn, called forth from him, as a reply, 

 a special paper in Bulletins de V Acadeinie royale de Belgique 

 (XL, 1886), in which he tried to refute, with all fairness and 

 courtesy, the arguments adduced by myself, in so far as they 

 differed from his own, and to reaffirm the position he had 

 already taken. 



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