devanāgarī numerals
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Devanāgarī numerals
Here is the 'basic list' of numbers - please add examples ( and decode the number ) if you wish. I will add one or two at the bottom of the post as examples. I find it interestng that some of the shape almost match their English equivlants e.g. - 2,3. Yet a '5' resembles a 6 (५),etc.
० १ २ ३ ४ ५ ६ ७ ८ ९
0 _1_ 2_ 3 _4 _5 _6_ 7__8 _9
Their names:
éka- 1
dva- 2
tri- 3
catúr-4
páñcan- 5
ṣáṣ- 6
saptán- 7
aṣṭá - 8
návan - 9
dáśan - 10
With zero , this is called bindu or mark like a dot , defined (also) as zero. Some call it śūnya (empty , void ).
- If I wrote 123 ( one-hundred-twenty-three) it would simply be १२३.
- I wish to say a 1/9th part : navāṃśa = navan or 9 + aṃśa partition or division. Aṃśa also means denominator, so we have 1/9th division
- How about a big number : seven koṭi-s called saptakoṭayaḥ= 7 X 10,000,000 = 70 million
Any examples you wish to offer?
praṇām
Last edited by yajvan; 06 April 2011 at 03:22 PM.
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