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parokSe liT परोक्षे लिट् ONPANINI 32115

Use /liT for hearsay.

This translates, in practice, to "you may use /liT to mean past time".

Some grammarians say that "hearsay" word here means that the /liT should preferentially be used for tales, stories, legends, and history — nothing that you saw yourself. Others say that it should not be used for anything that happened today (like the /laG).

You may safely ignore that advice, because nowadays no one uses the /liT at all in conversation, old authors used it whenever they felt like, and in literary works authors still use it whenever they want.

Not learning to understand the /liT is a horribly bad idea if you plan to read the epics —

nIlaJ cikSepa zailAgram kumbhakarNAya dhImate नीलं चिक्षेप शैलाग्रम्कुम्भकर्णाय धीमते


"nIla threw a stone to kumbhakarNa, who nimbly dodged it"

where **cikSepa चिक्षेप is kSip क्षिप् + /liT /tip.