Benedictive mood
The benedictive mood is a grammatical mood found in Sanskrit. It expresses a blessing or wish, such as found in the English expressions "The [king is dead, long live the king!|long live the king]" or "may [the force be with you]".
For verbs in the active voice, it is formed by adding endings very similar to the athematic optative endings directly to the verb root itself. Essentially, the sibilant -s is inserted between the optative marker -yā and the personal endings. By the action of the rules of sandhi, the second- and third-person benedictive endings are identical to the corresponding optative endings.
Middle voice benedictives are not found in Classical Sanskrit.