Ganitasara Sangraha of Mahavira

SR No.: 011112
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Rangacharya
Publisher: Rangacharya
Publication Year: 1912
Total Pages: 531
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 24 MB

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GANITABĀRASANGRAHA.
Terminology relating to the measurement of)
Other Metals. 12. What is known as a kala consists of four pādas; six and a quarter kalis make one yava; four yavas make one amsa; four ambas mako one bhāya.
43. Six bhägax make one drukšūna ; twice that (draksūna) is one dinära; two dināras make one satèra. Thus say the learned men in regard to the measurement of other) metals.
44. Twelve and a half palas make one prastha ; two hundred palax make ono tula; ten tulás make one bhara. Thus say thogo who are clever in calculation.
45. In this matter of measurement) twenty pairs of cloths, of jewels or of canes (are called) a kötikā. Next I give the names of the (principal) operations (in arithmetic).
Names of the Operations in Arithmetic. 46. The first among these oporations) is gunakära (multiplication), and it is also called) pratyutpanna ; the second is what is known as bhägahāra (division); and krti (squuring) is said to be the third
47. The fourth, as a matter of courso, is varga-müla (square root), and the fifth is said to be ghana (cubing); then ghanamüla (cube root) is the sixth, and the seventh is kuown as citi (summation).
48. This is also spoken of as sankalita. Then the eighth is oyutkulita (the subtraction of a part of a series, taken from the beginning, from the whole sories), and this is also spoken of as sega. All these eight (operations) appertain to fractions also. General rules in regard to sero and positive and
negative quantities. 49. A number multiplied by zero is zero, and that (number) remnius unchanged when it is divided by," combined with (or)
• It can be easily seen here that a number when divided by zero door not really remain unchanged. Bhakara calls the quotient of anch xero-divisions khahara and rightly atrigna to it the value of infinity. MahaviraoArys obvionsly think that a division by zero io no division at all.