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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OKAPTER VI-MIXED PROBLEMS.
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An example in illustration thereof.
181. Threo pieces of gold, of 3 each in weight, and of 2, 3, and 4 varnas (respectively), are added to an unknown weight of) gold of 13 varnas. The resulting varna comes to be 10. Tell me, O friend, the measure (of the unknown weight) of gold.
The rule for arriving at (the weights of) gold (corresponding to two given varnas) from the known weight and varna of) the mixture of two (given specimens of) gold of (given) varnas :
182. Obtain the differences between the resulting varna (of the mixture on the one hand) and the known higher and lower varnas (of the unknown component quantities of gold on the other hand); divide one by these differences (in order); then carry out as before the operation of praksēpaka (or proportionate distribution with the aid of these various quotients). In this manner it is possible to arrive oven at the value of many component quantities of gold also.
Again, the rule for arriving at (the weights of) gold (corresponding to two given varnas) from (the known weight and varna of) the mixture of two (given specimens of) gold of (given) varnas :--
183. Write down in inverse order the difference between tho resulting varņa and the higher (of the two given varnas of the two oomponent quantities of gold), and also the difference between the resulting varna and the lower (of the two given varnas). The result arrived at by means of the operation of proportionate distri. bution (carried out with the aid of these inversely arranged differences),--that (result) gives the required (weights of the component quantities of) gold.
An example in illustration thereof. 184. If gold of 10 varnas, on being combined with gold of 16 varnas, produces as result 100 in weight of gold of 12 varņas, give out separately (the measures in weight of the two different varieties of gold.