The blessing mood

Also known as: the benedictive, āśīḥ (“hope, wish”), āśīrliṅ

The blessing mood usually expresses a blessing or prayer:

• शुभं भूयात्
  śubhaṃ bhūyāt
  May there be welfare (to all).
  

Like the recent past tense, the blessing mood is rare.

Making the stem

Roots that use parasmaipada endings generally use the same -ya stem that we use in karmaṇi and bhāve prayoga for the special tense-moods:

• गम् → गम्य → गम्यात्
  gam → gamya → gamyāt
  go → go → may (someone) go
  

• वच् → उच्य → उच्यात्
  vac → ucya → ucyāt
  speak → speak → may (someone) speak
  

But even though these forms use a similar stem, they have the sense of kartari prayoga.

For ātmanepada endings, we strengthen the root but don't add any special suffixes.

Adding endings

Here are the ends we add for parasmaipada roots:

These endings are similar to the ones we use for the potential mood. The difference is that we add -yās- to the beginning of each ending.

Here is an example of how to use these endings:

The blessing mood is quite rare, and its ātmanepada forms are even rarer. Here are the ātmanepada endings we use:

Again, these endings are similar to the ones we use for the potential mood. The difference is that we add -sīs- to the beginning of each ending. This -sīs becomes -sī- if the ending starts with a voiced sound.

Here is an example of how to use these endings:

Note that the first s of these endings changed due to sandhi.

Review

1. How do we form the parasmaipada stem for this tense-mood?