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64 DECLENSION [86-87is regularly^ formed with mas and vas ; e.g. havis-masfrom havis-m.ant ;bhaga-vas from bhaga-vant.From go-mant 2)ossessed ofcoivs would be formed :Sing. N. m. g6man ;n. gomat. A. m. gomant-am. L. gomat-i.V. m. gomas.PI. N. m. gomant-as ;n. gomant-i.^ A. m. gomat-as.L. gomat-su.87. Adjective stems are formed with the suffixes -in,-min, -vin, which mean iiossessing.Those in -in are verycommon, those in -vin number nearly twenty, but thereis only one in -min : rg-min praising. They are declinedin the m. and n. only ;but the n. forms are very rare,*occurring in the s. N. I. G. only. These stems sometimescome to be used as m. substantives ;e. g. gath-in singer.As in all derivative stems ending in n, the vowel of thesuffix is lengthened in the N. s.m., and the n disappears inthat case (in the n. also) and before consonant endings.The forms actually occurring, if made from hast-in havinghands, would be as follows :Sing. m. N, hasti. A. hastin-am. I. hastin-a. D. hastin-e.Ab.G. hastin-as. L. hastin-i. V. hastin.Du. m. N.A. hastin-a, -au. I.D. hasti-bhyam. G.L.hastin-os.PI. m. N. hastin-as. I. hasti-bhis. D. hasti-bhyas. G.Sing.hastin-am.L. hasti-su.n. N. hasti. I. hastin-a. G. hastin-as.1There are sixteen in the KV. in vas and only three in the latervan (of which there are eight more in the AV.). There are sixvocatives in mas in the EV., but no example of tlie form in man.2There are also vocatives in vas from stems in van and vams(cp. the V. in yas from stems in yams).*The only two forms that occur are ghrt&vanti and pasumanti.The Padapatha reads vanti and manti in these forms, and thelengthening of the vowel seems metrical.4The f. stem is formed with i : asvin possessing horses ; f. a^vin-i.