Sanskrit Numerals With Multipliers of 10
It is often difficult to go beyond 1 billion while giving the names in Sanskrit. You know that 0.01 billion means कोटि in Sanskrit but we often do not know what would a billion mean in Sanskrit. I have complied the names of numerals in multipliers of 10 so as to provide us the last countable name of any number.
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| One | 1 | एक |
| Ten | 10 | दशन् |
| Hundred | 100 | शत |
| Thousand | 1,000 | सहस्र |
| Ten-thousand | 10,000 | अयुत |
| Hundred-thousand | 1,00,000 | लक्ष |
| Million | 10,00,000 | प्रयुत |
| Ten-million | 1,00,00,000 | कोटि |
| Hundred-million | 10,00,00,000 | अर्बुद |
| Billion | 1,00,00,00,000 | अब्ज |
| Ten-billion | 10,00,00,00,000 | खर्व |
| Hundred-billion | 1,00,00,00,00,000 | निखर्व |
| Trillion | 10,00,00,00,00,000 | महापद्म |
| Ten-trillion | 100,00,00,00,00,000 | शंकु |
| Hundred-trillion | 10,00,00,00,00,00,000 | जलधि |
| Quadrillion | 1,00,00,00,00,00,00,000 | अन्त्य |
| Ten-quadrillion | 10,00,00,00,00,00,00,000 | मध्य |
| Hundred-quadrillion | 1,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,000 | परार्ध |
Handy posting! Do you know about these Sanskrit books?
http://www.YogaVidya.com/freepdfs.html
Thanks for sharing the link.
कोटि would be 0.01 Billion, actually.
Oh yes, thanks for pointing that. I have corrected that.
jan 23, 2010:
thank you for posting the sanskrit numbers, for a long time i was stumped at abj and could not find anyone to tell me what came next — indian media were no use with their “xxx thousand crores”.
also i did not know there were names for what is commonly denominated as “dasha xxx” eg dasha laksha, dasha koti etc.
now i have to learn the terms ayuta, prayuta, arbuda etc. but i am not complaining, i will be happy to learn them.
could you email me the name of a book with such information? i would really appreciate it.
thank you, again.
jb day
houston, texas.
Well, thanks! I happy that it was helpful.
There are lots of books that can provide this information. I once used “A higher Sanskrit Grammar” by M. R. Kale. It is published by Motilal Banarasidass Publishers Pvt. Ltd.
Hello,
Curious to know what’s the source of this.
Also is it sahasra or sahasram? Prayuta or prayutah etc?
Thanks!