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a. The weakest cases of m. head, would be accented, , ,  (acc. pl.), , etc.; and so in all similar cases (loc. sing.,  or ).

425. Vedic Irregularities. a. Here, as elsewhere, the ending of the nom.-acc.-voc. du. masc. is usually instead of.

b. The briefer form (with ejected ) of the loc. sing., and of the neut. nom.-acc.-voc. du., is quite unusual in the older language. RV. writes once, but it is to be read ; and similar cases occur in AV. (but also several times -). In the Brāhmaṇas, too, such forms as and  are very much more common than such as  and.