uppad vibhakti table
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Vibhakti is a beautiful concept - one of the original and outstanding contributions of Samskrit grammar.
Samskrit and hence a the mainstream Indian languages have only 7 vibhaktis (why only 7 vibhaktis should be a question naturally )
Vibhakti is all about relationships. It drives three types of relationships
Relationship with verb [also called kAraka vibhakti]
Relationship with another object [sambanda vibhakti]
Relationship with another word [upa pada vibhakti]
vibhakti is always applied to nouns. Vihakthi is like a suffix (pratyaya) attached to a stem word.
bAla (boy) is a stem word - when a pratyaya (called su) is added to bAla it magically becomes bAla:
when ou is added to bAla - it becomes balou
when jas is added to bAla - it becomes bAlA:
[how this chemical reaction happens is a matter of in depth study in samskrit - pAni defines how various elements and alloys come in to existence in hindi