Ta (Indic)

← Nna	Ta			Tha →
Devanagari	Bengali	Gurmukhi	Gujarati	Oriya
		ਤ	ત
Tamil	Telugu	Kannada	Malayalam	Sinhala
த	త	ತ	ത	ත
Thai	Lao	Tibetan	Burmese	Khmer
ฏ	ຕ	ཏ	တ	ត
Baybayin	Hanunoo	Buhid	Tagbanwa	Lontara
ᜆ	ᜦ	ᝆ	ᝦ	ᨈ
Balinese	Sundanese	Limbu	Tai Le	New Tai Lue
ᬢ	ᮒ		ᥖ	ᦑ
Lepcha	Saurashtra	Rejang	Javanese	Cham
ᰊ	ꢡ	ꤳ	ꦠ	ꨓ
Tai Tham	Tai Viet	Kayah Li	Phags-pa	Siddhaṃ
ᠲ	ꪔ-	-	ꡆ ꡒ
Mahajani	Khojki	Khudabadi	Syloti	Meitei
𑅛	𑈐 𑈑	𑋂 𑋃	ꠎ	ꯖ
Modi	Tirhuta	Kaithi	Sora	Grantha
𑘕	𑒖	𑂔	𑃠	𑌜
Chakma	Sharada	Takri	Kharoshthi	Brahmi
𑄎	𑆘	𑚙	𐨗
Phonemic representation:			/t/
IAST transliteration:			ta
ISCII code point:			BA (186)

Ta is the sixteenth consonant of Indic abugidas. In modern Indic scripts, ja is derived from the Brahmi letter after having gone through the Gupta letter .

Aryabhata used Devanagari letters for numbers, very similar to the Greek numerals, even after the invention of Indian numerals.The values of the different forms of त are:^[1]

• त [t̪ə] = 8 (८)
• ति [t̪ɪ] = 800 (८००)
• तु [t̪ʊ] = 80,000 (८० ०००)
• तृ [t̪ri] = 8,000,000 (८० ०० ०००)
• ते [t̪e] = 8×10¹⁰ (८०^१०)
• तै [t̪ɛː] = 8×10¹² (८०^१२)
• तो [t̪oː] = 8×10¹⁴ (८०^१४)
• तौ [t̪ɔː] = 8×10¹⁶ (८०^१६)

References

1. Ifrah, Georges (2000). The Universal History of Numbers. From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer. New York: John Wiley & Sons. pp. 447–450. ISBN 0-471-39340-1.