The benedictive mood is a

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found in

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. It expresses a blessing or wish, such as found in the English expressions " long live the king" or "

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". For verbs in the active voice (), it is formed by adding endings very similar to the athematic optative endings directly to the verb root itself. Essentially, the sibilant is inserted between the optative marker and the personal endings. By the action of the rules of , the second- and third-person benedictive endings are identical to the corresponding optative endings ( turns into for the third person, and into for the second person). Middle voice () benedictives are not found in Classical Sanskrit.

Bibliography

* ''Devavāṇīpraveśikā: An Introduction to the Sanskrit Language'' – Robert P. Goldman – * ''A Sanskrit Grammar for Students'' – A. A. Macdonell – Grammatical moods Sanskrit grammar {{grammar-stub