Kaccāyana-Byākaraṇaṃ · chapter 5 of 8
§379
La da-rānaṃ
[There is] ‘la’ of ‘da’ and ‘ra’.
- Kaccāyana 379
- Rūpasiddhi 258
- Saddanīti 809
- Taddhita-Kappa · Aṭṭhama-Kaṇḍa
Text and translation
Read in the chapter →379. 258. La da-rānaṃ (809)
[La + da-rānaṃ = 2 words]
Dakāra-rakārānaṃ saṅkhyānaṃ lakārādeso hoti.
Soḷasa (Khu. ix, 381), cattālīsaṃ (A. iii, 22).
[There is] ‘la’ of ‘da’ and ‘ra’.
The letters ‘da’ and ‘ra’ of the numbers are substituted by the letter ‘la’.
Examples
- Soḷasa (sixteen), cattālīsaṃ (forty).
Without the footnotes: they are on the chapter card.
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