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The Essence of the Tantra6.54

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एकं दश शतं सहस्रम् अयुतं लक्षं नियुतं कोटिः अर्बुदं वृन्दं खर्वं निखर्वं पद्मं शङ्कुः समुद्रम् अन्त्यं मध्यम् परार्धम् इति क्रमेण दशगुणितानि अष्टादश इति गणितविधिः

Transliteration (IAST)

ekaṃ daśa śataṃ sahasram ayutaṃ lakṣaṃ niyutaṃ koṭiḥ arbudaṃ vṛndaṃ kharvaṃ nikharvaṃ padmaṃ śaṅkuḥ samudram antyaṃ madhyam parārdham iti krameṇa daśaguṇitāni aṣṭādaśa iti gaṇitavidhiḥ

— one, ten, hundred, thousand ; — ten thousand, hundred thousand, million, ten million ; — hundred million, billion, ten billion, hundred billion ; — trillion, ten trillion, hundred trillion ; — quadrillion, ten quadrillion, parārdha (hundred quadrillion) ; — the eighteen tenfold-multiplied (places) ; — the method of computation

One, ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand, hundred thousand, million, ten million, hundred million, billion, ten billion, hundred billion, trillion, ten trillion, hundred trillion, quadrillion, ten quadrillion, parārdha — thus the eighteen places multiplied tenfold in sequence: such is the method of computation.