Simple Sanskrit Lesson 7

In Lesson 6, we studied vowel-ending

words up to - along with the numerals
. It would become mundane to keep
on detailing declensions of other vowel-
ending words and also consonant-ending
words. Those could possibly be added
later on in annexes.
Having detailed in the previous lesson,
the declensions of the numerals
and having noted towards the closing,
There is much more to learn about
numbers. That merits a separate
chapter. it should be appropriate to
discuss numbers : right away.
We use numbers in different ways. For
counting we use cardinal numbers. They
are adjectival and have gender, case and
number, corresponding to the person or
thing being counted. That is why we had
in the previous lesson, declensions of
in all three genders and in all cases. It
should be appropriate to note declensions of (=
four) right away.
Table 7-1
Declensions of pronoun-adjective (=
four)

It would be noted that

 declensions are in plural
declensions in masculine and neuter
genders are same in third case
onwards.
For numbers from (= five) right up to
(= hundred), declensions are common in all three
genders.
We also need numbers for telling the rank
or serial order. Such numbers are called
the Ordinals . In Table 7-2 are listed
-s both cardinal and ordinal for numbers
from 1 to 20.