called yā,e ḥuṭṭī or yā,e muṣannāt I taḥtānī, the twenty-eigth letter of the Arabic alphabet, the thirty-second Persian, and thirty-fifth Hindūstānī : in reckoning by abjad it stands for ten ; in the almanacks it is the character of Jupiter, and of the sign Aquarius.
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the corresponding letter in the Devanāgarī alphabet : in words o Sanskrit origin it is frequently changed into jīm, as judh or juddh for yuddh, battle, contest.