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words, each having a numerical meaning — Satai?, 

 Sahajan, Lakhan or Lakse, or Lack, &c. &c. 



Satan • • • • signifies 100 



Sahajan ] 000 



Lakhan 100,000 



Naouthan- • • • 1000,000 



Cathi 1000000000 



Pakethi 1 000000000000 



Cothi Pakothi 1000000000000000 

 Cothi Pakothi Naouthan ••••18 zeros, 



Nina Outhan 21 do. 



Hakoheni 24 do. 



Bindhou 27 do. 



Aboiidhan 30 do. 



Nina-Boudhan 33 do. 



Abahan 36 do. 



Abebhan 39 do. 



Athethan 42 do. 



Soghandi 45 do. 



Kowpcllan 48 do. 



Komodan J 1 do. 



Pomederikan 54 do. 



Padowonan ' - > - -57 do. 



Mahakatta (>0 do. 



Sanke or Asanke 6^ do. 



One sanke or asanke is, therefore, a number of 

 jears amounting to an unit with sixty-three zeros 

 after it. I suspect that there is an error in the four 

 first numbers, though all those, whom I have con- 

 suited, have assured me there is not. This is to be 

 lamented; for had the account commenced with 1, 

 the second line been 1000, the third 1,000,000, tScc. 

 and so on, and that the second were added to the 

 first, the third to the two preceding ones, the fourth 

 to the three, and so on, it would produce a fine ma- 

 gical square, of the same description as that display- 

 ed by the wise men of Sianii and which a famous 



astronomer, 



