Ganitasara Sangraha

SR No.: 020800
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Mahaviracharya, M Rangacharya
Publisher: Government of Madras
Publication Year: 1912
Total Pages: 523
Language: Hindi, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 22 MB

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GANITASĀRASANGRAHA.
6. Out of a collection of excellent bees, I took delight in pătali trees, } in kadamba tree, 1 in mango trees, f in a campaka tree with blossoms fully opened ; ab in a collection of full-blown lotuses, opened by the rays of the sun; and (finally), a single intoxicated bee has been circling in the sky. What is the number (of bees) in that collection?
7. A certain śrăvaka, having gathered lotuses, and loudly uttering hundreds of prayers, offered those (lotuses) in worship, of those lotuses and }, and of this (%) respectively to four tērthankaras commencing with the excellent Jina Vrsabha; then to Sumati ) as well as it of this (same of the lotuses); (thereafter) he offered in worship to the remaining (19) tīrthankaras 2 lotuses each with a mind well-pleased. What is the numerical value of (all) those (lotuses)?
8 to 11. There was seen a collection of pious men, who had brought their senses under control, who had driven away the poison-like sin of karma, who were adorned with righteous conduct and virtuous qualities and whose bodies had been cmbraced by the Lady Mercy. Of that (collection), was made up of logicians; this (1) diminished by ļof itself was made up of the teachers of the true religion; the difference between these two (, namely, ia and i1-} of 12) was made up of those that knew the Vēdas; this (last proportional quantity) multiplied by 6 was made up of the preachers of the rules of conduct, and this very same (quantity) diminished by of itself was made up of astrologers; the difference between these two (last mentioned quantities) was made up of controversialists; this (quantity) multiplied by 6 was made up of penitent ascetics; and 9x 8 leading ascetics were (further) seen hy me near the top of a mountain with their shining bodies highly heated by the rays of the sun. Tell me quickly (the measure of this collection of prominent sages.
12 to 16. (A number of) parrots descended on a paddy-field beautiful with (the crops) bent down through the weight of the ripe corn. Beiny scared away by men, all of them suddenly flew up. One-half of them went to the east, and I went to the south-east; the difference between those that went