deriv LSK ETT STT aSTA ALPH OLDHOMEPAGE NEWHOMEPAGE

@meanings of past tenses

In most late styles of Sanskrit, /kta and /ktavatu words are the most common way to make past sentences —

tayA kumbhaH kRtaH तया कुम्भः कृतः "she made a pot"

sA kumbhaG kRtavatI सा कुम्भं कृतवती "she made a pot"

to the point that all three of the past tenses —

kumbham akArSIt कुम्भमकार्षीत् "she made a pot", with /luG

kumbham akarot कुम्भमकरोत् "she made a pot", with /laG

kumbhaJ cakAra कुम्भं चकार "she made a pot", with /liT

sound archaic.