cardinal number sixteen DN.i.128; Snp.1006; Ja.i.78 (lekhā); Ja.ii.87; Ja.iii.342 (atappiya-vatthūni); Ja.v.175, Ja.vi.37; Mil.11 (palibodhā); Dhp-a.i.129 (˚salākā); Dhp-a.iv.208 (˚karīsa-matta). instr. soḷasahi DN.i.31, & soḷasehi DN.i.139; gen. soḷasannaṃ Ja.iv.124. Very frequent in measures of time & space.; -vassa˚; (16 years… Ja.i.231, Ja.i.285; Ja.ii.43; Ja.iv.7; Ja.vi.10, Ja.vi.486; Dhp-a.i.25 and passim. The fem. --sī acts as num. ord. “sixteenth, in phrase kalaṃ nagghati soḷasiṃ he is not worth a sixteenth particle of AN.iv.252; SN.iii.156; SN.v.44, SN.v.343; Dhp.70; Iti.19.
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