Names of big numbers in Sanskrit

[Revati Choudhari]

Namaste,

Is there a reliable resource to know the names of big numbers like billion, trillion etc in Sanskrit?

I searched a lot online but the names are all mixed up. Example, one source has nikharva as billion while another source has nikharva as 100 billion.

DhanyavAdaH

[kenp]

http://veda.wikidot.com/sanskrit-numbers

[Subrahmanian R]

The attached four scanned pages from Al Biruni's  India, written about a thousand years ago, gives some information. He confirms that the confusion or conflicting names in different schools for a few words were prevalent even during that time.

R Subrahmanian

On Wed, 16 Aug 2023 at 21:27, kenp <drk...@gmail.com> wrote:

http://veda.wikidot.com/sanskrit-numbers

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[kenp]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_astronomy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Biruni