Atma, crude form Atman, is a typical form, and occurs very frequently in the Gita in the singular number.
lst. आत्मा [ v. 21 ]
2nd. आत्मानम् [ vi. 5 ]
3rd. आत्मना [ vi. 5 ]
4th. आत्मने
5th. आत्मनः
6th. आत्मनः [ vi. 6]
7th. आत्मनि [vi. 21]
Neuter nouns in their case-endings except in those of the first and second cases, generally follow the masculine.
'Thus कर्म crude form कर्मन्, has:
1st. कर्म (xviii. 8) कर्मणी कर्माणि (ix. 9 )
2nd (iii. 8) ( vi. 30 )
The feminine in इ may be taken as an example of the feminine declensions :
1st. मति: ( XVIll. 78)
2nd. बुद्धिं (iii. 2)
Brd. बुद्धया ( गi. 39 )
4th. मत्यै or मतये
5th. बुद्धेः (iii. 43 ) or बुद्धयाः
6th. ,,
7th. बुद्धौ (ii, 49 )
(b) Adjectives and adverbs &c. Adjectives, words indicative of the qualities ’ of nouns, are declined in the same way as the latter, and when not compounded with these are always in apposition with them.
