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LESSON TWELVE
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The scriptures should be explained by the teacher to the pupils. 10. If a man becomes devoid of wealth his relatives should not forsake him.
LESSON TWELVE
287 The AMg. declension is mostly of nouns ending in vowels. A few nouns, however, which originally ended in consonants in Sanskrit have peculiar forms of the consonant al declension and can be said to form the irregular declension in AMg.
I.
288 Words which end in F in Sk. fall into two groups, those denoting agency and those denoting relationship. They are differently declined in a few cases. 289 Words denoting agency. कत्ता doer' N.. कत्ता
कत्तारो, कत्ता V. कत्ता
कत्तारो 'कत्तारं
कत्तारो, कत्ता कत्तारण
कत्तारेहि ___Ab.. कत्ताराओ कत्तारोहितो
G. कत्तणो, कत्तारस्स कत्ताराणं ___L. कत्तारे
कत्तारेसुं Similarly are declined दाया giver, नेया leader, नाया knower, सत्था preacher, पसत्था expounder, गन्ता goer.
The forms of older 'declension are: N. sing. neyā, chettā, dāyā, (forms from plu. used as sing. are : udagadāyāre, bhattāre, uvadamsettāre, bhattāro); A. sing. bhattāram, dāyāram, neyāram, N. plu. akkhātāro, āgantāro, pannattāro, neyāro.
