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nil : 1 . Ratio in Ratio in Late Ratio in Morpheme Early Vedic Sanskrit Vedic (AV) Nom-acc. du. 7:1 I: 2 nil : I -ā: -au Instr. pl. 221 : 211 I:S Pres. first per sg. -masi : -mas. 3:4 The development of the four stages in OIA is illustrated below. (A) EARLY VEDIC yas tā vi jānāt sa pituspitãsat 'He who should know them would be the father of the father' (RV i 168 16d). (B) LATE VEDIC yas täni veda pituspitāsat (AV 2 1.2d). Here we find two changes : tāni for tā and veda (unreduplicated perfect=present; cf. āha, āsa) for vi janāt (subjunctive). The second half is a repetition for RV. (C) EARLY SANSKRIT (RECONSTRUCTED) yas tāni veda sa pituh pitāsa. Here we do not expect internal sandhi between pituļ and pita and the subjunctive asat would be replaced by perfect (=present) āsa which is still in use. (D) CLASSICAL SANSKRIT (RECONSTRUCTED) yas tāni vetti sa pituḥ pitā bhavati. At this stage the few remnants of unreduplicated perfect (=present) are gone out of use, and as- has become purely a substantive verb. sa