, smā, (or ṣma, ṣmā), ind. a particle perhaps originally equivalent to ‘ever’, ‘always’; and later to ‘indeed’, ‘certainly’, ‘verily’, ‘surely’ (it is often used pleonastically, and in earlier language generally follows a similar particle [esp. ha, na], or relative, or prep. or verb, while in later language it frequently follows iti, na and mā́ [cf. 1. mā́]; it is also joined with a pres. tense or pres. participle to give them a past sense [e.g. praviśanti sma, ‘they entered’]; this use of is also found in the Brāhmaṇas and is extended to veda and āha cf. [Vām. v, 2, 46]), [RV.]; &c. &c.