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śata

śatá n. (rarely m.; ifc. f(I). ) a hundred (used with other numerals thus, ekādhikaṃ śatam, or eka-ś°, a hundred + one, 101 viṃśaty-adhikaṃ śatam or viṃśaṃ ś°, a hundred + twenty, 120; śate or dve śate or dvi-śatam or śata-dvayam, 200; trīṇi śatāni or tri-śatāni or śata-trayam, 300; ṣaṭ-śatam, 600; or the comp. becomes an ordinal, e.g. dvi-śata, the 200th; dvikaṃ, trikaṃ śatam = 2, 3 per cent; śatātpara, ‘beyond a hundred, exceeding 100’; the counted object is added either in the gen., or in the same case as , or ibc., e.g. śatam pitaraḥ or śatam pitṝṇām or pitṛ-śatam ‘a hundred ancestors’; sometimes also ifc. See comp. below; rarely śatam is used as an indeclinable with an instr., e.g. śatáṃ ráthebhiḥ, ‘with a hundred chariots’, [RV. i, 48, 7]; rarely occurs a masc. form in pl., e.g. pañca-śatān rathān, [MBh. iv, 1057]; and n. rarely in comp. of the following kind, catur-varṣa-śatam or °tāni, ‘400 years’), [RV.] &c.;

any very large number (in comp. as śata-pattra &c. below).

[cf. Gk. ἑ-κατόν ‘one’ hundred; Lat. centum; Lith. szìmtas; Got. (twa) hunḍa; Germ. hund-ert; Eng. hund-red.]