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 c. The accent, however, is never thrown forward (as in the participle) upon the case-ending or the feminine ending.

453. To illustrate the inflection of such stems, it will be sufficient to give a part of the forms of पशुमन्त् possessing cattle, and भगवन्त्  fortunate, blessed. Thus: 454. Vedic Irregularities. a. In dual masc. nom. etc., (for ) is the greatly prevailing ending.

b. In voc. sing. masc., the ending in the oldest language (RV.) is almost always in instead of  (as in the perfect participle: below, 462 a): thus,, , ,. Such vocatives in RV. occur more than a hundred times, while not a single unquestionable instance of one in is to be found. In the other Vedic texts, vocatives in are extremely rare (but  and its contraction  are met with, even in the later language); and in their reproduction of RV