An inflectional language like Sanskrit inevitably presupposes a familiarity on the part of the user in the fully inflected forms in declensions and conjugations. Declensions are indeed manageable with a little patience and perserverance; but conjugational forms with ten lakaras in three numbers and three persons are a tall order. It is very difficult even for a scholar to ensure that the verbal form used by him is the correct one, given the vagaries ...