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Sanskrit
Sanskrit numbers (edit)
, ← 1,000,000,000 (109)
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, ← 100,000,000,000 (1011)
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१०००००००००००० 1012
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1013 → ,
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1015 →
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Cardinal: शङ्कु (śaṅku)
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Alternative scripts
Etymology
Probably related to शङ्ख (śaṅkha, “conch”).
Pronunciation
Noun
शङ्कु • (śaṅku) stem, f
- 10000 crores or 100 billions
Descendants
References
- Apte, Macdonell (2022) “शङ्कु”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Sanskrit Dictionaries]