| Plural: | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| N. V. | विद्वांसस् vidvā́ṅsas |
विद्वांसि vidvā́ṅsi |
तस्थिवांसस् tasthivā́ṅsas |
तस्थिवांसि tasthivā́ṅsi |
| A. | विदुषस् vidúṣas |
विद्वांसि vidvā́ṅsi |
तस्थुषस् tasthúṣas |
तस्थिवांसि tasthivā́ṅsi |
| I. | विद्वद्भिस् vidvádbhis |
तस्थिवद्भिस् tasthivádbhis | ||
| D. Ab. | विद्वद्भ्यस् vidvádbhyas |
तस्थिवद्भ्यस् tasthivádbhyas | ||
| G. | विदुषाम् vidúṣām |
तस्थुषाम् tasthúṣām | ||
| L. | विद्वत्सु vidvátsu |
तस्थिवत्सु tasthivátsu | ||
a. The feminine stems of these two participles are विदुषी vidúṣī and तस्थुषी tasthúṣī.
b. Other examples of the different stems are:
from √kṛ — cakṛvā́ṅs, cakṛvát, cakrúṣ, cakrúṣī;
from √nī — ninīvā́ṅs, ninīvát, ninyúṣ, ninyúṣī;
from √bhū — babhūvā́ṅs, babhūvát, babhūvúṣ, babhūvúṣī;
from √tan — tenivā́ṅs, tenivát, tenúṣ, tenúṣī.
462. a. In the oldest language (RV.), the vocative sing. masc. (like that of vant and mant-stems: above, 454 b) has the ending vas instead of van: thus, cikitvas (changed to -van in a parallel passage of AV.), titirvas, dīdivas, mīḍhvas.
b. Forms from the middle stem, in vat, are extremely rare earlier: only three (tatanvát and vavṛtvát, neut. sing., and jāgṛvádbhis, instr. pl.), are found in RV., and not one in AV. And in the Veda the weakest stem (not, as later, the middle one) is made the basis of comparison and derivation: thus, vidúṣṭara, ádāçuṣṭara, mīḍhúṣṭama, mīḍhúṣmant.
c. An example or two of the use of the weak stem-form for cases regularly made from the strong are found in RV.: they are cakrúṣam, acc. sing., and ábibhyuṣas, nom. pl.; emuṣám, by its accent (unless an error), is rather from a derivative stem emuṣá; and ÇB. has proṣúṣam. Similar instances, especially from vidvā́ṅs, are now and then met with later (see BR., under vidvā́ṅs).
d. The AV. has once bhaktivā́ṅsas, as if a participial form from a noun; but K. and TB. give in the corresponding passage bhaktivā́nas; cakhvā́ṅsam (RV., once) is of doubtful character; okivā́ṅsā (RV., once) shows a reversion to guttural form of the final of √uc, elsewhere unknown.
