Kaccāyana-Byākaraṇaṃ · chapter 5 of 8
Gaṇane dasassa dvi-ti-catu-pañca-cha-satta-aṭṭha-navakānaṃ vī-ti-cattāra-paññā-cha-sattāsa-navā yosu, yonañ c’ īsam āsaṃ ṭhi ri t’ īt’ uti
In the enumeration, when ‘yo’ follows, [there are] ‘vī’, ‘ti’, ‘cattāra’, ‘paññā’, ‘cha’, ‘satta’, ‘asa’ and ‘nava’ of two tens, three tens, four tens, five tens, six tens, seven tens, eight tens and nine tens [respectively], and of ‘yo’ [there are] ‘īsaṃ’, ‘āsaṃ’, ‘ṭhi’, ‘ri’, ‘ti’, ‘īti’ and ‘uti’.
- Kaccāyana 389
- Rūpasiddhi 413
- Saddanīti 824
- Taddhita-Kappa · Aṭṭhama-Kaṇḍa
Text and translation
Read in the chapter →389. 413. Gaṇane dasassa dvi-ti-catu-pañca-cha-satta-aṭṭha-navakānaṃ vī-ti-cattāra-paññā-cha-sattāsa-navā yosu, yonañ c’ īsam āsaṃ ṭhi ri t’ īt’ uti (824)
Gaṇane dasassa dvika-tika-catukka-pañcaka-chakka-sattaka-aṭṭhaka-navakānaṃ sarūpānaṃ katekasesānaṃ yathāsaṅkhyaṃ vī ti cattāra paññā cha satta asa nava icc ādesā honti asakiṃ yosu, yonañ ca īsaṃ āsaṃ ṭhi ri ti īti uti icc ādesā honti, pacchā puna nippajjante.
Vīsaṃ (D. i, 12; M. i, 101), tiṃsaṃ (D. i, 12; M. ii, 301), cattālīsaṃ (D. i, 12; Khu. i, 190), paññāsaṃ (Khu. i, 190), saṭṭhi (D. i, 50), sattari, sattati (Khu. i, 190), asīti (Khu. i, 190), navuti (Khu. i, 190).
Asakin ti kimatthaṃ? Dasa.
Gaṇane ti kimatthaṃ? Dasadasakā purisā.
- Vīsaṃ (twenty), tiṃsaṃ (thirty), cattālīsaṃ (forty), paññāsaṃ (fifty), saṭṭhi (sixty), sattari, sattati (seventy), asīti (eighty), navuti (ninety).
What is the purpose of saying “asakiṃ” (not once only)? [To prevent the operation of this rule in cases like]: dasa (ten), where [the ten] occurs once only.
What is the purpose of saying “gaṇane” (in the enumeration)? [To prevent the operation of this rule in cases like]: dasadasakā purisā (men who have ten decades), [which is not pure numeration].
Without the footnotes: they are on the chapter card.
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