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522. A number of adjectives — some of them coming from pronominal roots, others more or less analogous with pronouns in use — are inflected, in part or wholly, according to the pronominal declension (like त, 495), with feminine stems in. Thus:

523. The comparatives and superlatives from pronominal roots — namely, and  and, and ; also  other, and its comparative  — are declined like  throughout.

a. But even from these words forms made according to the adjective declension are sporadically met with (e. g. K.).

b. takes occasionally the form  in composition: thus,.

524. Other words are so inflected except in the nom.-acc.-voc. sing, neut., where they have the ordinary adjective form, instead of the pronominal. Such are all,  all, every,  one.

a. These, also, are not without exception, at least in the earlier language (e. g. RV.;  loc. sing., AV.).

525. Yet other words follow the same model usually, or in some of their significations, or optionally; but in other senses, or without known rule, lapse into the adjective inflection.

a. Such are the comparatives and superlatives from prepositional stems: and  and  and  and  and  and. Of these, pronominal forms are decidedly more numerous from the comparatives than from the superlatives.

b. Further, the superlatives (without corresponding comparatives) also  (whose positive and comparative belong to the class first mentioned: 523).

c. Further, the words distant, other;  prior, east;  right, south;  behind, western;  (f.  or ) of both kinds or parties;  the one, half; and the possessive.

526. Occasional forms of the pronominal declension are met with from numeral adjectives: e. g. ; and from other words having an indefinite numeral character: thus, few;  half;  all;  of the two kinds;  outside — and others. RV. has once.