Pāḷi Grammars
ES

Kaccāyana-Byākaraṇaṃ · chapter 5 of 8

§394

Yāva taduttari dasaguṇitañ ca

And as far as [the numeration] goes, beyond those there is multiplication by ten.

Text and translation

Read in the chapter →

394. 416. Yāva taduttari

[Yāva + taṃ-uttari + dasaguṇitaṃ + ca = 4 words]

Yāva tāsaṃ saṅkhyānaṃ uttari dasaguṇitañ ca kātabbaṃ.

Taṃ yathā? Dasassa gaṇanassa dasaguṇitaṃ katvā sataṃ (D. i, 12-3) hoti, satassa dasaguṇitaṃ katvā sahassaṃ (JA. i, 138) hoti, sahassassa dasaguṇitaṃ katvā dasasahassaṃ hoti, dasasahassassa dasaguṇitaṃ katvā satasahassaṃ (D. i, 12-3) hoti, satasahassassa dasaguṇitaṃ katvā dasasatasahassaṃ hoti, dasasatasahassassa dasaguṇitaṃ katvā koṭi (Khu. iv, 305) hoti, koṭisatasahassassa sataguṇitaṃ katvā pakoṭi (AA. iii, 329) hoti. Evaṃ sesā pi yojetabbā.

Caggahaṇaṃ visesanatthaṃ.

And as far as [the numeration] goes, beyond those there is multiplication by ten.
And as far as [the numeration] goes, beyond those numbers the multiplication by ten is to be done.
As what? Having multiplied by ten (dasaguṇitaṃ katvā) the number ten (dasassa gaṇanassa), there is (hoti) one hundred (sataṃ); having multiplied by ten (katvā dasaguṇitaṃ) the one hundred (satassa), there is one thousand (sahassaṃ); having multiplied by ten (katvā dasaguṇitaṃ) the one thousand (sahassassa), there is ten thousand (dasasahassaṃ); having multiplied by ten (katvā dasaguṇitaṃ) the ten thousand (dasasahassassa), there is one hundred thousand (satasahassaṃ); having multiplied by ten (katvā dasaguṇitaṃ) the one hundred thousand (satasahassassa), there is one million (dasasatasahassaṃ); having multiplied by ten (katvā dasaguṇitaṃ) the million (dasasatasahassassa), there is ten million (koṭi); having multiplied by one hundred (sataguṇitaṃ katvā) the one hundred thousand of ten millions (koṭisatasahassa), there is 10¹⁴ (pakoṭi). Thus the remaining ones are also to be formed.
“Ca” has the meaning of specification.

Without the footnotes: they are on the chapter card.

Drafts

Ask about §394

Questions are asked from the analysis following Visuddhāyuṃ (draft): the answer uses this sutta's row and the project's sources. It is for enrolled students and requires signing in.

Ask about §394 →

Pāḷi text and English translation by Bhikkhu Nandisena; edition, apparatus and glossary by the Instituto de Estudios Buddhistas Hispano (IEBH). This material may be reproduced for personal use and distributed free of charge. Copyright © 2026 IEBH. Published under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21948010.