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JAINISM AND WORLD PROBLEMS
Preliminary ananta is called pritananta, the intervening ananta, yuktananta, and the ultimate, anantananta.
We thus have seven different types of enumeration. Each of these seven is again divided into three sub-types, namely, (i) Jaghanya (minimum),
(ii) Madhyama (middling or intermediate), and (iii) Utkrishta (maximum).
This gives us twenty-one kinds of enumeration in all, comprising three countables, nine countlesses and nine infinities. In a tabulated form we may give them thus:
Enumeration
Countable (Samkhyata) (4) minimum (7) intermediate (iii) maximum.
Preliminary (minimun
Advanced (4) minimum
() intermediate () intermediate (ii) maximum
(i) maximum
Preliminary (i) minimum (i) intermediate (iii) maximum
be given.
Countless (Asamkhyata)
Advanced (7) minimum () intermediate (i) maximum
The numerical value of these
Ultimate (i) minimum (7) intermediate (i) maximum
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Infinite (Ananta)
Ultimate (i) minimum (i) intermediate (iii) maximum
twenty-one types must now
1. Jaghanya (minimum) countable is 2, since two is the lowest number, one being no sum.
2. Madhyama (intermediate) countable is
3, 4, 5, 6,..., to maximum countable--].
[The reason is obvious; the least and the largest numbers can only be one sum each, when the Madhyama will naturally cover all the intervening terms.]
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