History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.820

v6.c82.820

and in Bṛhat-saṁhitā 8. 20 and by all later astronomical writers¹¹⁰⁹ The particular matter to be noted is that the first word in a group (denoting a number) is to be assigned to the units place, the next to its left in the tens place, so that a word like 'saptāśvi-veda-saṅkhyam' becomes 427 (by the rule 'aṅkānāṁ vāmato gatiḥ')