Shakespear, John: A grammar of the Hindustani language (London, 1826)

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A GRAMMAR OF THE

91, usyh or \j) 92, ^y\j> 93, &c. And the series
after one hundred is continued thus, Cf) ^ C£j\ 101, cuL

~ co ^ ✓

u-SS y*> 721, ^ y 938. When, however, the word

CS>\ is imrnediately subsequent to another nurneral or
other numerals, it may convey the meaning of near or
about, one more or less than, such number or numbers ; as,
Cj>\ about a liundred, lLSj) y ^ o ?rea?' fayo hundred and
two: and, if a noun is used, it generally precedes the
numeral, when tliis sense is intended ; so, CJJ) ^ .^S\
about ten men; s*j Lioj ^ two hours or so afterwards.
instead of the figures above given, moreover, Arabic
letters are sometimes adopted to represent numbers; and
the order of the alphabet then observed, with the quan-
tity denoted by each letter, is,

Ot ko ro —>

OOOO OOCO <10 01 .4* 0© (O —*

jyJ» *-r!\

O O 00

o o o
o o o

V. i n

OO t© >—

o o o o
o o o o

<C 00’-a O)

o o o o

The intermediate and subsequent numbers being de-
noted by the composition of these letters; as U eleven, }
thirty-six, jJs one hundred and ninety four. two thousand,
•^jfive hundred tliousand, &c.