SANSKRITA  LANGUAGE.
297.
Of  the  conditional  Mood.
385.  THE  conditional  mood  has  sometimes  a  past,  and  sometimes  a
future  signification,  and,  as  before  observed,  (p.  125.  r.  9),  is  seldom  used
singly,  being  usually  accompanied  by  another  verb  in  the  same  tense,  and
in  construction  with  some  particle  denoting  contingency,  iucn  as  &T  If,
If,  and    When;  but  which  are  sometimes  omitted.
.  Ia  tone  were
foft,  it  would  then  be  certainly  eaten  by  the  jackals.
386.  THE  terminations  suited  to  the  conditional  are  the  same  as  those
given  in  the  technical  scheme,  p.  127,  which  are  here  repeated  with  the
final  H,  as  usual,  reduced  to  :  .  In  conjugating  this  tense,    is  required
to  be  every  where  prefixed  to  the  root,  as  observed  p.  128,  rule  157.
9.  Conditional  Mood.
Common  Form.
Proper  Form.
Sing.
Dual.
Plur.
Sing.
Dual.
Plur.
2.  W:
T:
3.
Obs.  As  every  termination  of  the  conditional  opens  with  the  same
letters  as  those  of  the  second  future,  namely  ,  so  this  tense  is  governed
by  the  fame  rules,  with  respect  to  the  permutation  of  the  radical  letters
and  the  prefix  .  It  will  therefore  be  unnecessary  to  repeat  those  rules
in  this  place;  they  will  be  found  page  286,  rulès  349  to  366.  The  few
examples  which  follow,  will  be  fufficient  to  ſhew  how  this  tense  is  conjugated. ¬

Qq
9.  Con.