| Plural: | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| N. V. | prā́ñcas prā́ñci | pratyáñcas pratyáñci | víṣvañcas víṣvañci |
| A. | prā́cas prā́ñci | pratīcás pratyáñci | víṣūcas víṣvañci |
| I. | prā́gbhis | pratyágbhis | víṣvagbhis |
| D. Ab. | prā́gbhyas | pratyágbhyas | víṣvagbhyas |
| G. | prā́cām | pratīcā́m | víṣūcām |
| L. | prā́kṣu | pratyákṣu | víṣvakṣu |
a. The feminine stems are prā́cī, pratīcī́, víṣūcī, respectively.
b. No example of the middle forms excepting the nom. etc. sing. neut. (and this generally used as adverb) is found either in RV. or AV. In the same texts is lacking the nom. etc. pl. neut. in ñci; but of this a number of examples occur in the Brāhmaṇas: thus, prā́ñci, pratyáñci, arvāñci, samyáñci, sadhryañci, anvañci.
409. a. Like prā́ñc are inflected ápāñc, ávāñc, párāñc, arvā́ñc, adharā́ñc, and others of rare occurrence.
b. Like pratyáñc are inflected nyàñc (i.e. níañc), samyáñc (sam+añc, with irregularly inserted i), and údañc (weakest stem údīc: ud+añc, with i inserted in weakest cases only), with a few other rare stems.
c. Like víṣvañc is inflected anváñc, also three or four others of which only isolated forms occur.
d. Still more irregular is tiryáñc, of which the weakest stem is tiráçc (tirás+ac: the other stems are made from tir+añc or ac, with the inserted i).
410. The accentuation of these words is irregular, as regards both the stems themselves and their inflected forms. Sometimes the one element has the tone and sometimes the other, without any apparent reason for the difference. If the compound is accented on the final syllable, the accent is shifted in RV. to the ending in the weakest cases provided their stem shows the contraction to ī or ū: thus, prā́cā, arvā́cā, adharā́cas, but pratīcā́, anūcás, samīcī́. But AV. and later texts usually keep the accent upon the stem: thus, pratī́cī, samī́cī, anū́cī (RV. has pratī́cīm once). The shift of accent to the endings, and even in polysyllabic stems, is against all usual analogy.
B. Derivative stems in as, is, us.
411. The stems of this division are prevailingly neuter; but there are also a few masculines, and one or two feminines.
412. The stems in अस् as are quite numerous, and mostly made with the suffix अस् as (a small number also
