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Rules for the use of Numerals.
1 is used in the Singular and in all the genders.
2-4 have different forms in different genders but no regard is paid to them.
5-18 are used in the Plural as Masculine and are declined exactly like पंच.
19-48 are used in the Singular. They are declined in the Nom, and Acc. like Neuters ending in wand in other cases like Ferninines ending in or
49-58 are used in the Plural and are declined like a
In cases other than the Nom. and Acc. they are often declined like Feminines ending in .
59-99 are used in the Singular. They are declined in the Nom.and Acc. like Neuters ending in T, and in other cases like
Feminines ending in . 17 Examples
___Nom. भट्ठमस्स अंगस्स दस अज्मयणा पण्णता ( of the eighth Anga teu chapters have been preached. ' नायाणं एगूणवीसं अज्झयणा पणत्ता • of the Nāyas nineteen chapters have been preached. 'date FETT'( there had been) twenty-three Tirthankaras',
g ran parte UTM ATTENT, araa og TT TTF'in books on dreams forty-two dreams, thirty great dreams, seventy-two dreams in all, have been preached. ____ Acc. अरहतमायरो चउद्दस महासुमिणे पासित्ता पडिबुज्झति 'mothers of Arhantas awake after seeing fourteen great dreams, वीसं वासाई सामण्णपरियागं पाउणिता after leading the life of a Samana for twenty years.' अरहते fãagertha3a fa Tat I shall praise the Arhantas, all the twenty-four Kevalin.' prae salut fararfaat 'having taught the seventy-two arts.'
Instr. एकवीसाए तित्थयरेहेिं by twenty-one Tirthankaras. पंचहत्तरीए पासेहिं
seventy-five years being left'.
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