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स्मा n. ind.
स्म, (or ष्म, ष्मा) a particle perhaps originally equivalent to ‘ever’, ‘always’
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ह and later to ‘indeed’, ‘certainly’, ‘verily’, ‘surely’ (it is often used pleonastically, and in earlier language generally follows a similar particle [
esp. , न], or relative, or prep. or verb, while in later language it frequently follows इति, न and ना॑ [cf. 1.मा॑]; it is also joined with a pres. tense or pres. participle to give them a past sense [e.g. प्रविशन्ति स्म, ‘they entered’]; this use of स्म is also found in the ब्राह्मणs and is extended to वेद and आहcf. [Vām. v, 2, 46] ), [RV.] ; &c.
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