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 222 § 293-294. Express etc., but also how to make the interjacent ones (see ing nouns f. i. WHITNEY § 476 and 477), this point may be passed of num- ber by over here. It will suffice to give some instances of the most various usual idioms for expressing numbers higher than 100. So Varâh. combi- nations Brh. 11, 5 101, Ch. Up. 3, 16, 7 a 116 Cp.P.5, 2, 45. years" [liter. a hundred of years, determined by sixteen]. Of ad- dition, as f. i. instances are found very often, especially in poetry. Expressing numbers by multiplication is not rare, either by saying f. i. fà: q instead of, or by using the type fat si: 240 [lit, three eighties], cp. 295. Mhbh. 1, 32, 24 Farul Hamtetni h (having made 8100 mouths) we have an instance of multiplication expressed by the instrumental of the multiplicator. = > Rem. 1. A very singular manner of denoting numbers between 200 and 1000, mentioned by WHITNEY $ 480, is met with now and then in the dialect of the liturgical books and in epic poetry. Çânkh. Br. 3, 2 tu afand dark, the meaning of which is »360 is the number of the days of a year," not, as one would infer from the very form, 3 X 160. Çankh. Çr. 16, 8, 9- = 280. So R. 2, 39, 36. taraf maş; are not = 3 × 150, but 350, ep. ibid. 2, 34, 13, where the same number is thus ex- pressed: gant: [: = half-seven hundreds, that is 3¹, × 100. Rem. 2. In the ancient dialect cardinal nouns of number show in some degree a tendency to become indeclinable words. See WHITNEY § 486 c), who gives instances from vaidik works. But classic Sanskrit disapproved that loss of flexion and checked it ¹). 294. From 1-19 the cardinal nouns of number are ad- How the jectives, but 20 and the rest are properly substantives. So fa: - nouns um does not signify twenty" fr. vingt, but „a » ber are con number of twenty," fr. une vingtaine. For this reason, strued. etc. are not only fa and the rest, , AJA, 1) As a rest of it we may consider, that M. 8, 268 and Kathas. 44, 77 the nom. q does duty of an accusative.