privative a with finite verb

[L.S. Cousins]

Jonathan,

In fact, Whitney §1121b gives two examples:
asp.rhayanti (BhP. & "Si"s) and alokayati (SD).
But I cannot check them immediately.

Lance

>Friends,
>
>I have the impression that I have seen, in Buddhist texts at least,
>privative a affixed to finite verbs (but my memory gets worse and worse, and
>maybe I'm imagining this...). Now I have a passage which may need
>emendation, or perhaps not, if it can be demonstrated that such forms exist,
>whether Paninian or not. (This may even be discussed in Wackernagel, for
>instance, but I'm not sure I  would even know how to look for it...). Any
>advice will be much appreciated!
>
>JAS