A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature c4.s3.7
A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature c4.s3.7
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c4.s3.7
Some words will be found with varying terminations, as ‘Hanumat’ and ‘Hanumān,’ ‘Sikhandin’ and ‘Sikhandī.’ The explanation of this is that Sanskrit nouns have what is called a crude form or stem independent of case termination, and the nominative case very frequently differs from it. So ‘Hanumat’ and ‘Sikhandin’ are crude forms; ‘Hanumān’ and ‘Sikhandī’ are their nominative cases. There are other such variations which need not be noticed.