These datives of verbal nouns in +as+, correspond exactly to Latin infinitives in _ĕre_, like _vivere_ (+jîváse+), and explain likewise infinitives in _âre_, _êre_, and _îre_, forms which cannot be separated. It has been thought that the nearest approach to an infinitive is to be found in such forms as +jîváse+, +bhiyáse+, to fear (V. 29, 4), because in such cases the ordinary nominal form would be +bháyas-e+. There is, however, the instrumental +bhiyása+, X. 108, 2. DATIVES IN _MANE_. Next follow datives from nouns in +man+, +van+, and +an+. The suffix +man+ is very common in Sanskrit, for forming verbal nouns, such as +kar-man+, doing, deed, from +kar+. +Van+ is almost restricted to forming _nomina agentis_, such as +druh-van+, hating; but we find also substantives like +pat-van+, still used in the sense of flying. +An+ also is generally used like +van+, but we can see traces of its employment to form _nomina actionis_ in Greek ἀγών, Lat. _turbo_, etc. Datives of nouns in +man+, used with infinitival functions, are very common in the Veda; _e.g._ I. 164, 6, pṛccâmi vidmane, I ask to know; VIII. 93, 8, dâmane kṛtáḥ, made to give. We find also the instrumental case +vidmánâ+, _e.g._, VI. 14, 5, vidmánâ urushyáti, he protects by his knowledge. These correspond to Homeric infinitives, like ἴδμεναι, δόμεναι, etc., old datives and not locatives, as Schleicher and Curtius supposed; while forms like δόμεν are to be explained either as abbreviated, or as obsolete accusatives. DATIVES IN _VANE_. Of datives in +váne+ I only know +dāvâne+, a most valuable grammatical relic, by which Professor Benfey was enabled to explain the Greek δοῦναι, i.e., δοϝέναι.[34] DATIVES IN _ANE_. Of datives in +áne+ I pointed out (l.c.) +dhûrv-ane+ and +vibhv-áne+, VI. 61, 13, taking the latter as synonymous with +vibhvế+, and translating, +Sarasvatî+, the great, made to conquer, like a chariot. Professor Roth, _s.v._ +vibhván+, takes the dative for an instrumental, and translates “made by an artificer.” It is, however, not the chariot that is spoken of, but +Sarasvatî+, and of her it could hardly be said that she was made either by or for an artificer. LOCATIVES IN _SANI_. As we saw before that aoristic bases in _s_ take the datival _e_, so that we had +prák-sh-e+ by the side of +pṛ́c-e+, we shall have to consider here aoristic bases in _s_, taking the suffix +an+, not however with the termination of the dative, but with that of the locative _i_. Thus we read X. 126, 3, náyishṭhâḥ u naḥ nesháṇi párshishṭhâḥ u naḥ parsháṇi áti dvíshaḥ, they who are the best leaders to lead us, the best helpers to help us to overcome our enemies, lit. in leading us, in helping us. In VIII. 12, 19, +gṛṇîsháni+, i.e. +gṛ-ṇî-sháṇ-i+ stands parallel with +turv-án-e+, thus showing how both cases can answer nearly the same purpose. If these forms existed in Greek, they would, after consonantal bases, be identical with the infinitives of the future. CASES OF VERBAL NOUNS IN _TU_.