using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using Library;
using static Library.Input;

namespace AtCoderTemplate
{
    class ProgramE
    {
        static void Main()
        {
            int n = NextInt, m = NextInt, k = NextInt;

            long tmp = m, result = 0;

            for (int i = n - 2; i >= k; i--) tmp = tmp * (m - 1) % Modular.mod;

            for (int i = k; i >= 0 ; i--)
            {
                result = (Modular.Ncr(n - 1, Math.Min(n - 1 - i, i)) * tmp + result).value;
                
                tmp = tmp * (m - 1) % Modular.mod;
            }

            System.Console.WriteLine(result);
        }
    }
}

namespace Library
{
    class Input
    {
        static IEnumerator<string> enumerator = new string[] { }.AsEnumerable().GetEnumerator();

        public static string Line => Console.ReadLine();

        public static string[] StrArr => Line.Split(' ');

        public static int NextInt => int.Parse(NextWord());

        public static long NextLong => long.Parse(NextWord());

        public static List<int> IntList => StrArr.Select(int.Parse).ToList();

        public static List<long> LongList => StrArr.Select(long.Parse).ToList();

        public static IEnumerable<long[]> TakeLine(int N)
        {
            return Enumerable.Repeat(0, N).Select(_ => Console.ReadLine().Split(' ').Select(long.Parse).ToArray());
        }

        public static string NextWord()
        {
            while (!enumerator.MoveNext())
            {
                enumerator = StrArr.AsEnumerable().GetEnumerator();
            }
            return enumerator.Current;
        }
    }
}

namespace Library
{

    class Modular
    {
        public const int mod = 998244353;
        public readonly long value;
        public Modular(long value) { this.value = value; }
        public static implicit operator Modular(long a)
        {
            var m = a % mod;
            return new Modular((m < 0) ? m + mod : m);
        }
        public static Modular operator +(Modular a, Modular b)
        {
            return a.value + b.value;
        }
        public static Modular operator -(Modular a, Modular b)
        {
            return a.value - b.value;
        }
        public static Modular operator *(Modular a, Modular b)
        {
            return a.value * b.value;
        }
        public static Modular Pow(Modular a, int n)
        {
            switch (n)
            {
                case 0:
                    return 1;
                case 1:
                    return a;
                default:
                    var p = Pow(a, n / 2);
                    return p * p * Pow(a, n % 2);
            }
        }
        public static Modular operator /(Modular a, Modular b)
        {
            return a * Pow(b, mod - 2);
        }
        private static readonly List<int> facs = new List<int> { 1 };
        private static Modular Fac(int n)
        {
            for (int i = facs.Count; i <= n; ++i)
            {
                facs.Add((int)(Math.BigMul(facs.Last(), i) % mod));
            }
            return facs[n];
        }
        public static Modular Ncr(int n, int r)
        {
            return (n < r) ? 0 :
                (n == r) ? 1 :
                Fac(n) / (Fac(r) * Fac(n - r));
        }
        public static explicit operator int(Modular a)
        {
            return (int)a.value;
        }
    }

}


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