Lesson 23

This lesson introduces:

• the pronouns of nearer and further reference (इदम् “this” and अदस् “that”)
• the possessive adjectives produced by the suffixes, -मत् and -वत्
• the adjectives of quantity derived from pronouns (यावत्, तावत्, etc.)

The latter two follow exactly the paradigm you just learned for past active participles (e.g., गतवन्त्), so we only have one new paradigm in this lesson (the first item above). For Macdonell’s presentation of it (इदम् and अदस्), see §§111-12 below: