Dear Yong Peng & Nina,

> Jim, can you explain briefly vikara.na and non-vikara.na suffixes? Thank
> you.

The vikara.na suffixes are enumerated just slightly ahead in the section
you're working on. These are conjugational signs that distinguish the eight
classes of verbs in Aggava.msa's system. The suffix is added directly to the
root, e.g,, bhuu + a > bhava to which we can then add the tense suffixes. In
the verb "bhavati", we can see that the second "a" is the vikara.na suffix.

The non-vikara.na suffixes are described in Pariccheda 25 on verbs. "kha" is
found at sutta 906 and the example given there is "titikkhati" for the root
"tij". An example with the suffix "cha" is "jigucchati" in sutta 907 for the
root "gup" and for "sa", the example "vima.msati" is given at sutta 909 for
the root "man". And there are non-vikara.na suffixes for desideratives and
denominatives too. I'm not sure if we can include causatives and passives
here also.

Best wishes,
Jim