an An have five toes to his feet instead of four or six? Did the first An, created by the AllGood, have the same number of toes as his descendants? In the form by which an An will be recognised by his friends in the future state of being, will he retain any toes at all, and, if so, will they be material toes or spiritual toes?" I take these illustrations of Pah-bodh, not in irony or jest, but because the very inquiries I name formed the subject of controversy by the latest cultivators of that 'science'—4000 years ago.
In the declension of nouns I was informed that anciently there were eight cases (one more than in the Sanskrit Grammar); but the effect of time has been to reduce these, cases, and multiply, instead of these varying terminations, explanatory prepositions. At present, in the Grammar submitted to my study, there were four cases to nouns, three having varying terminations, and the fourth a differing prefix.
| Singular. | Plural. | ||||
| Nom. | An, | Man. | Nom. | Ana, | Men. |
| Dat. | Ano, | to Man. | Dat. | Anoi, | to Men. |
| Ac. | Anan, | Man. | Ac. | Ananda, | Men. |
| Voc. | Hil-An, | O Man. | Voc. | Hil-Ananda, | Men. |
