śatá n. (rarely m

• ifc. f. ī) a hundred (used with other numerals thus, ekâdhikaṃ 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, 'beyonda hundred, exceeding 100'

• the counted object is added either in the gen., or in the same case as śata, or ibc., e.g. śatam pitaraḥ or, śatam pitṝṇām or pitṛ-śatam a hundred ancestors'

• sometimes also ifc., comp. below

• rarely śatam is used as an indecl. 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-śatā, rathān MBh. iv, 1057

• and śata n. rarely in comp. of the following kind, catur-varṣa-śatam or ○tāni, '400 years') RV. &c. &c

• any very large number (in comp. as śata-pattra &c. below). [Cf. Gk. ? 'one' hundred ; [1048, 3] Lat. centum ; Lith. sśmtas

• Got. (twa) hunda ; Germ. hund-ert ; Eng. hund-ed.]