import java.io.BufferedReader
import java.io.InputStream
import java.io.InputStreamReader
import java.util.*
import kotlin.math.abs
import kotlin.math.max
import kotlin.math.min

val MOD = 998244353
class Comb(n: Int, val mod: Int) {

  val F = LongArray(n + 1)
  val I = LongArray(n + 1)
  init {
    F[0] = 1
    for (i in 1..n) {
      F[i] = F[i - 1] * i % mod
    }
    I[n] = powMod(F[n], (mod - 2).toLong(), mod)
    for (i in n - 1 downTo 0) {
      I[i] = I[i + 1] * (i + 1) % mod
    }
  }

  private fun powMod(a: Long, n: Long, mod: Int): Long {
    if (n == 0L) return 1
    val res = powMod(a * a % mod, n / 2, mod)
    return if (n % 2 == 1L) res * a % mod else res
  }

  fun comb(n: Int, k: Int): Long {
    return F[n] * I[k] % mod * I[n - k] % mod
  }

  fun inv(x: Int): Long {
    return I[x] * F[x - 1] % mod
  }

  /**
   * nのグループからk回重複ありで選ぶ組み合わせ数
   * n - 1のしきりとkの○で考える
   */
  fun H(n: Int, k: Int) = comb(n + k - 1, k)
}
class Solver(stream: InputStream, private val out: java.io.PrintWriter) {
  fun solve() {
    val N = ni()
    val M = ni()
    val K = ni()
    val comb = Comb(N, MOD)
    val pow = LongArray(N)
    pow[0] = 1
    for (i in 1 until pow.size) {
      pow[i] = pow[i - 1] * (M - 1) %MOD
    }
    var ans = 0L
    for (g in 1 .. N) {
      val switch = g - 1
      val k = N - 1 - switch
      if (k <= K) {
        val v = comb.comb(N - 1, switch) *
            pow[switch] % MOD *
            M % MOD
        debug{"k:$k v:$v"}
        ans = (ans + v) % MOD
      }
    }
    out.println(ans)
  }













































  private val isDebug = try {
    // なんか本番でエラーでる
    System.getenv("MY_DEBUG") != null
  } catch (t: Throwable) {
    false
  }

  private var tokenizer: StringTokenizer? = null
  private val reader = BufferedReader(InputStreamReader(stream), 32768)
  private fun next(): String {
    while (tokenizer == null || !tokenizer!!.hasMoreTokens()) {
      tokenizer = StringTokenizer(reader.readLine())
    }
    return tokenizer!!.nextToken()
  }

  private fun ni() = next().toInt()
  private fun nl() = next().toLong()
  private fun ns() = next()
  private fun na(n: Int, offset: Int = 0): IntArray {
    return map(n) { ni() + offset }
  }
  private fun nal(n: Int, offset: Int = 0): LongArray {
    val res = LongArray(n)
    for (i in 0 until n) {
      res[i] = nl() + offset
    }
    return res
  }

  private fun na2(n: Int, offset: Int = 0): Array<IntArray> {
    val a  = Array(2){IntArray(n)}
    for (i in 0 until n) {
      for (e in a) {
        e[i] = ni() + offset
      }
    }
    return a
  }

  private inline fun map(n: Int, f: (Int) -> Int): IntArray {
    val res = IntArray(n)
    for (i in 0 until n) {
      res[i] = f(i)
    }
    return res
  }

  private inline fun debug(msg: () -> String) {
    if (isDebug) System.err.println(msg())
  }

  private fun debug(a: LongArray) {
    debug { a.joinToString(" ") }
  }

  private fun debug(a: IntArray) {
    debug { a.joinToString(" ") }
  }

  private fun debug(a: BooleanArray) {
    debug { a.map { if (it) 1 else 0 }.joinToString("") }
  }

  private fun debugDim(A: Array<LongArray>) {
    if (isDebug) {
      for (a in A) {
        debug(a)
      }
    }
  }

  /**
   * 勝手にimport消されるのを防ぎたい
   */
  private fun hoge() {
    min(1, 2)
    max(1, 2)
    abs(-10)
  }
}

fun main() {
  val out = java.io.PrintWriter(System.out)
  Solver(System.`in`, out).solve()
  out.flush()
}

Measured memory_bytes: 40016