Amrita Collected Papers by A M Ghatage

SR No.: 006968
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jitendra B Shah
Publisher: Kasturbhai Lalbhai Smarak Nidhi Ahmedabad
Total Pages: 530
Language: English
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34. 4. "Having cut short 60 meals with fasting." P. dasannaṁ pi dadāmi, vīsāya pi dadāmi, tiṁsāya pi dadāmi, cattārisāya pi dadāmi, paññāsāya pi dadāmi | Sn. 86. “I give to ten, twenty, thirty, forty or to fifty.” vīsatiyā yojanesu tiṁsāga yojanesu | M. 11. 162. "At the distance of 20 or 30 yojanas.” ekūnapaññāsāya kandehi | Jat. III. 220. “With 49 arrows." chattissatiyā sotehi | Dh. Co. IV. 48. “With 36 streams” atthacattārisam vassāni Sn. 289. "For 48 years." imesam tevīsatiyā buddhānam santike Dh. Co. I. 48. “Near these 23 Buddhās.”
Words expressing bigger numbers like hundred thousand, etc. are also regarded as substantives and so stand in apposition to the words which they qualify. But sometimes they may be also thought of as adjectives. As. yojanaśatesu | K. XIII. 6. "In hundred Yojans.” vassasatāni | K. IV. 9. "Hundred years." bahūni panasahasāni | K. I. 3. "Many thousand beings." P. gandhabbā cha sahassāni | Th. 164. “Sixty thousand Gandhabbas." bhikkhuniyo sahasam | Mhvs. 5. 187. "Thousand nuns.” pañcasatāni candālapurise | Mhvs. 10. 91. "Five hundred low-caste men.” gāthā satam | Dh. 102, "Hundred Gāthās.” pañcasate vānije | Jat. II. 123. “Five hundred merchants.” AMg. pañco sayā | Kap. 142. “Five hundred."
In many cases the numeral remains without any inflection. P. pannāsa yojanā sattahi yojana | Dh. Co. III. 217. “Fifty and sixty Yojans," pañcapaññsa vassāhi...pañcavīsati vassāni Th. 1. 904. “Fifty five years, twenty five years." ekūnapaññāsa jane | Jat. III. 220. “Forty-nine people.” AMg. solasa rogāyankā | Vip. 22. "Sixteen diseases and sicknesses.” sattari vāsāi | Kap. S. 70. “Seventy years." - Numerals over twenty being substantives, they can also govern the Genitive of the noun, P. parosahassam bhikkhūnam Th. 1. 1238. “More than thousand monks.” vihārānam pañcasalam| Mhvs. 12. 33. “Five hundred Vihāras." Satthi arahatam akā | 1. 14. "He made sixty Arhats.” AMg. atthasayam māhanadāraganam atthasayam khattiyadāragānam | Vip. . 107. “Eight hundred Brahmān and Ksatriya boys.” JM. pañcasayā suvannassa dāūna taṁ parenei | Erz. 39. 27. “Giving five hundred gold coins he marries her.” donni lakkhā mayagalānam donni sahassā rahanam pañca ajuyam hayānam satta kodio pāyāijanānam | Erz. 39. 3 1-32. "Two lakhs of elephants, two thousands of charitors, five Ayutas of horses and seven crores of foot soldiers.” puttanam satthi sahassa | Sag. “Sixty thousand sons."
Numerals also enter into compounds with the nouns. AMg. attthasahassalakkhanadharo | U. 22.5, “Possessed of eight thousand marks."