Dear Colleagues,

I hesitate about the forms of the perfect of the root VYAI/VII (VYE MW: "vyeñ sa.mvara.ne" Dhaatupaa.tha). As Whitney §801c (p. 290, Harvard University Press repr. 1950, in digital form at:  http://sanskrit1.ccv.brown.edu/Sanskrit/Funderburk/wgramscan/dispa/index.php) states: "the grammairians require the strong forms to be made from VYAY, and the weak from VII", whereas the forms vivyathus and vivye "and no others have been met with in use" (so. the 3d/1st sg. vivyaaya, from P. 6.1.46, and 2nd sg. vivyayitha, from P. 7.2.66, found in Böhtlingk&Roth's Dict. and Whitney's Roots s.v.; cf. the 3d pl. vivyu.h (Maagha) versus vivyayu.h (Bha.t.t.i) discussed in Durgha.taV. 6.1.108, and the 3d pl. vivyu.h and 3d dual vivyatuh explained ibid. 8.2.78).

The useful tool created by Gerard Huet, called "The Sanskrit Grammarian" (http://sanskrit.inria.fr/DICO/grammar.html - conjugation), generates the following forms

http://sanskrit.inria.fr/cgi-bin/SKT/sktconjug?t=VH&q=vyaa&c=1&font=roma :

Active: sg. vivyaaya, vivyayitha, vivyaaya

        dual viviva, vivyathu.h, vivyatu.h

        plural vivima, vivya, vivyu.h

Middle: sg. vivye, vivii.se, vivye

        dual viviivahe, vivyaathe, vivyaate

        plural viviimahe, viviidhve, viviire

But I wonder if it is not possible to rather have in the 1st dual and plural A: vivyiva and vivyima, following the forms ninyiva and ninyima of NII, and samely in the Middle Voice, // NII, the 2nd sg vivyi.se, 1st dual and plural vivyivahe vivyimahe, and 2nd-3d pl. vivyire.

Thank you for your grammatical comments, also on the 'alternative' forms A. 1st sg. viviya and 2nd sg. viviktha that I found in Hanxleden's grammar given as such.

Christophe Vielle

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