138 G. A. Grierson— Essays on Bihari Declension. [No. 2, 
it are exactly the same, mutatis mutandis, as those regarding and I do 
not repeat them. 
/3. Inorganic Declension of nouns* 
By Inorganic declension I mean that kind of periphrastic declension 
which is formed by postpositions added to a base whether inflected or not. 
In Bihari the base undergoes regular inflection or preparation for the recep¬ 
tion of postpositions. This occurs both in the singular and plural, each 
of which has a direct (or nominative) and an oblique form. 
It will be convenient to deal with the question of number first. The 
following are the plural forms. 
