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{|class=_sgtable !colspan=5|Plural: !N. V.
 * सेनास्


 * कन्यास्


 * देव्यस्


 * वध्वस्

!A.
 * सेनास्


 * कन्यास्


 * देवीस्


 * वधूस्

!I.
 * सेनाभिस्


 * कन्याभिस्


 * देवीभिस्


 * वधूभिस्

!D. Ab.
 * सेनाभ्यस्


 * कन्याभ्यस्


 * देवीभ्यस्


 * वधूभ्यस्

!G.
 * सेनानाम्


 * कन्यानाम्


 * देवीनाम्


 * वधूनाम्

!L.
 * सेनासु


 * कन्यासु


 * देवीषु


 * वधूषु


 * }

a. In the Veda is a stem belonging to the other division (like, above, 356).

365. Examples of Vedic forms are:

a. -stems: instr. sing. (this simpler form is especially common from stems in and ); nom. pl. (about twenty examples); accus. pl. (a case or two). Half the -cases are to be read as ; the of gen. pl. is a few times to be resolved into ; and the  and  of nom. and accus. sing. are, very rarely, to be treated in the same manner.

b. -stems: instr. sing. , ; loc. ; nom. etc. du. ; nom. pl. ; gen. pl. . The final of the stem is to be read as a vowel (not ) frequently, but not in the majority of instances: thus,, , ,.

c. The sporadic instances of transfer between this division and the preceding have been already sufficiently noticed.

d. Of the regular substitution made in the Brāhmaṇa language (307 g, 336 g, 363 c) of the dat. sing. ending for the gen.-abl. ending, in all classes of words admitting the latter ending, a few examples may be given here: (AB.) a sign of overpowering;  (AB.) of the metres triṣṭubh and jagatī;  (AA.) of speech, both divine and human;  (AB.) woman's milk;  (TB.) that, forsooth, is the seed of the cow;  (KB.) of dead skin;  (AB.) superior to the ;  (ÇÇS.) from this heaven, from this atmosphere. The same substitution is made once in the AV.: thus, let her relatives sleep.