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both not improbably derived from 
the same Skr. root, but in Mai - 
thill they must be treated as dis¬ 
tinct : Forms derived from the 
past part, of %r cannot be used as 
auxiliaries; forms derived from 
or are used either as auxiliaries 
or as simple verbs substantive 
meaning, to be, while other forms 
of 'tr are either used as verb sub¬ 
stantives meaning, to be, or to be¬ 
come, or as auxiliary verbs, exactly 
like the verb %T«TT in Hindi : 
According, however, to Maithil 
pandits, the existence of the root 
or ^ 3 ? is ignored altogether, 
and all forms are referred to the 
root f T : the following forms have 
been noted ; A., derived from the 
root ^ or ; 1 Simp. Pres. 
ft; 3 ^ which 
appear frequently in F. are Fa- 
nauji or Hindi) : 1 fut. ; 3 
^ ^ ^ -jr ^ "Pl / 
^nr, • Jr res. Fart. 
B., derived from the root 
%T; 1 Simp. Pres., and Imperat., 
%t, ; 2 %T55 ; 3 f 1^*?, 
%T% 
•* 1 Fut. ; 
3 ( fern . ^RffT), f HJW, ^cT, 
%TW • 1 Petro. Cond. ; 3 
%Tf fT : Pres. Part. : 
Adv. Part. : 1 Past 
or contracted (Vid. LXXIX, 2) 
3 ir^r (fern. iSf%), or 
lengthened for metre *T^TT {fern. 
\ " -v Si. ^ 
WT), 
{fern. F. has also 
the Hindi vr; (63), and *1T (22): 
Indecl. part. vr, : 1 Peri- 
phrast. Pres. %E<T #t ; 3 f PT^TW, 
: to be : become, f T, 
to become sorrowful, or disgusted, 
to show distress or aversion : to 
come into existence, rise (of a 
heavenly body), come (of the day ): 
to live, be, it has been, i. e., 
it has passed away, cf “ fuit 
Ilium”: to take place, ^RIT ^TT, 
as morning came, at day-break : 
ii^T, it was seen, with the 
Indecl. Participle in its proper 
sense of a verbal noun, lit. the act 
of seeing took place, so also 'SU'S 
he stood: to be able 
to be: fr W, 3 Past w 
to happen, become. 
existence; a coming into ex¬ 
istence. 
fr, ft, see %, (2) ; in F. 59. ^ is 
for Hindi %, 2 Plur. 
f T^fe, itch. 
frjf, interj. stop! Prov. ^ifs^lT 
frjf, a lazy fellow is always wait¬ 
ing for some one to cry “stop !” 
|hr, see (2). 
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