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Modern Devanagari Western Arabic Words for the cardinal number Sanskrit (wordstem) Hindi Marathi Nepali; ०: 0: शून्य (śūnya)शून्य (śūny)शून्य (śūnya)
There are names for numbers larger than crore, but they are less commonly used. These include arab (100 crore, 1 billion), kharab (100 arab, 100 billion), nil or sometimes transliterated as neel (100 kharab, 10 trillion), padma (100 nil, 1 quadrillion), shankh (100 padma, 100 quadrillion), and mahashankh (100 shankh, 10
For number 0, Modern Standard Hindi is more inclined towards śūnya (a Sanskrit tatsama) and Standard Urdu is more inclined towards sifr (borrowed from Arabic), while the native tadbhava-form is sunnā in Hindustani. Sometimes the ardha-tatsama form śūn is also used (semi-learned borrowing).
Aryabhata used this number system for representing both small and large numbers in his mathematical and astronomical calculations. This system can even be used to represent fractions and mixed fractions. For example, nga is 1 ⁄ 5, nja is 1 ⁄ 10 and jhardam (jha=9; its half) = 4 + 1 ⁄ 2. [further explanation needed]
It does not contain all the diacritic marks that IAST contains. It was designed to simplify the task of putting large amount of Sanskrit textual material into machine readable form, and the inventors stated that it reduces the effort needed in transliteration of Sanskrit texts on the keyboard. [90]
For example, the Panchavimsha Brahmana lists 10 9 as nikharva, 10 10 vâdava, 10 11 akṣiti, while Śâṅkhyâyana Śrauta Sûtra has 10 9 nikharva, 10 10 samudra, 10 11 salila, 10 12 antya, 10 13 ananta. Such lists of names for powers of ten are called daśaguṇottarra saṁjñâ. There area also analogous lists of Sanskrit names for ...
Hence the raga's melakarta number is 65 (56 reversed). 65 is greater than 36. So MechaKalyani has Ma2. Since the raga's number is greater than 36 subtract 36 from it. 65–36=29. 28 (1 less than 29) divided by 6: quotient=4, remainder=4. Ri2 Ga3 occurs. Da2 Ni3 occurs. So MechaKalyani has the notes Sa Ri2 Ga3 Ma2 Pa Da2 Ni3 SA.
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