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74 DECLENSION [93-95cases occurring in the clu. and pi.aie the N.A. m. Theinflexion of these words may be illustrated by apanc :Sing. m. N. apan (61). A. apanc-am.I. apac-a.L. apae-i.Du. N.A. apanc-a, apanc-au.PI. N. apanc-as. A. apac-as.The only distinctively n. form is N.A. s. prak.^ The f. isformed from the weak stem with i :prac-i.94. The points to be noted about changeable stems are :1. The vowel of the suffix is lengthenedin the N. s. m.except in ant and anc stems g6-man, agni-van : ; kaniyan ;cakr-van; raja; asma, grava, yiiv-a; hasti, rg-mi,taras-vi ;but ad-an, pratyan.2. The N. sing, ends in a nasal in all changeable stemsexcept those in n, which dropit.3. All changeable stems that lengthenN. s. m. shorten it in the V. Those that dropthe vowel in thethe n inthe N., retain it in the V., while those that have n (after a)in the N. drop it in the V., and add s :thus rajan (N. raja)," asman (N. asma), gravan (N.grava), yuvan (N. yiiva);^ hastin (N. hasti); havismas(N. havisman), marutvas ^(N. marutvan) ; kaniyas (N.kaniyan) cakrvas;(N. cakrvan).a. The only changeable stems in which the V. does not differ in form(though it does in accent) from the N. are the ant and anc stems :ddan (N. adan) ; pratyan (N. pratydn).95. The feminines of nouns with changeable stems are1In B. some half-dozen N.A. plur. n. forms occur :pranci, pratyaiici,arvafici, samyanci, sadhryanci, anvanci.^One an stem has a V. in as : matari-sv-as (p. 68, n. 5).^Four van stems form their V. in vas :rta-vas, eva-ya-vas, pratarit-vas,vi-bha-vas.*The RV. has three vocatives in van :arvan, i§atavan, ^avasavan.The AV. has five others, but none in vas.