[INDOLOGY] Sanskrit perfect first person

Harry Spier vasishtha.spier at gmail.com
Wed Oct 1 20:14:23 UTC 2025


George Hart said:

> . . ., the perfect tense is supposed to be used for acts one has not
> witnessed. Obviously, this makes the use of the first person perfect
> problematic.
>

Does that mean in sanskrit you can use the perfect sense to say:  "I did
not witness the battle yesterday". but you can't to say "I witnessed the
battle yesterday" ?

 Thanks,
Harry Spier
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