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58 DECLENSION [82-83is lengthened in the N. s. and before consonant endings.The forms occurring, if made from pur, would be :Sing. N. pur. A. pur-am. D. pur-6. Ab.G. pur-as.L. pur-i.Du.N.A. pur-a, pur-au.PI. N.V. pur-as. A. pur-as. I. pur-bhis. D. pur-bhyas.G. pur-am. L. pur-su.a. dvar has the weakened A. pi. form duras (also once duras andonce dvaras), the only weak case occuri-ing.b. tdr occurs in one (strong) form only, N. pi. tar-as, and star inone (weak) form only, I. pi. stfbhis.^c. svar n. light has the two contracted forms D. sur-6, 6. sur-as.'^It drops the case-ending in the L. s.^ siiar.Stems in s.83. 1. The radical s stems number about forty. A dozenare monosyllabic, five being m. :jnas relative, mas month,vas^ abode, pums niale,^ sas ruler ;two f. : kas cough, nasnose ;five n. : as face, bhas light, mas flesh, dos arm, yostvelfare. The rest are compounds, e.g. su-das giving tvell,liberal.a. Before bh the s becomes d in the two forms I. mad-bhis and D.mad-bhyas, and r in the only other one that occurs :dor-bhyam.h. The A. pi. has the accentuation of weak cases in mas-as andjnas-as.2. The derivative stems in s are formed with the suffixes-as, -is, -us, and are, with few exceptions, neuter substantives.All of them lengthen their final vowel in the N.V. A.pi. n., e.g. manamsi, jy6timsi, caksumsi. The m. and f.are mostly compoundsmember.with these stems as their finala. The as stems consist almost entirely of neuters, which^-With irregular accent. With the accent of a disyllabic.3Like the an stems (90, 2).*This word might be a feminine.^stem.This woixl will be treated later (96, 3) as an irregular changeable