JOURNAL 
OF THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 
Part I. —HISTORY, LITERATURE, &c. 
No. I.— 1899. 
On the Kagmlri Verb.—By G. A, Grierson, C.I.E., Ph.D., I.C S. 
[Read January, 1899.] 
The Katpniri Verb is treated in the Akliyata- and Krdanta-prakri- 
yas of l^vara-kailia’s Kagmuagabdamrta. 
Verbal roots may end either in a consonant or in a vowel. When 
a root ends in a consonant, the vowel a is added to assist the pronun¬ 
ciation. Thus the root tear is written kar a . It is still, however, 
considered to be a root ending in a consonant and is referred to as such. 
The final ^ a is dropped before adding the conjugational suffixes. For 
this reason, throughout this series of papers, I shall so far depart from 
the rule of strict transliteration, that I shall not write the final ^ a of 
roots ending in consonants, although that final a will be written in 
the Nagari character. 
When a root ends in a vowel, that vowel is always ^ i. There are 
only eight of these roots, of which five belong to the first, and three to 
the third conjugation, as follows,— 
First Conjugation. — f% khi, eat ; ci, drink; f^; di, give; fif niy 
take ; and f% hi, take. 
Third Conjugation. — % zi, be born ; fg pi, fall ; and fa yi, come 
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