Jinamanjari 1999 04 No 19

SR No.: 524019
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jinamanjari
Publisher: Canada Bramhi Jain Society Publication
Publication Year: 1999
Total Pages: 88
Language: English
Classification: Magazine, Canada_Jinamanjari, & Canada
File Size: 5 MB

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as in other philosophies - but the mathematical manipulation through symbols is a peculiarity of the Digambara Jaina School. Similar achievement in southern India appears - perhaps round about the period of Kundakundācārya, when writing of the scripture was in full swing after the compilation of the Satkhaṇḍāgama and the Kasayapadhuda texts.5 Round about this period we find certain revolutionary events which speak of the mathematical talents of some genius.
Mathematical Terms, Symbols, and Events Of Early Common Era Without going into their controversial details, but leaving it up to the scholars to solve the problem of their source on the basis of an indispensable necessity, let us shall relate the events.
Zero in the place value system was needed by the Jaina School, We also find the place value system employed in the addition of the factor as well as in their subtraction - in the Karṇāṭaka Vrtti. Zero was adapted in the writing of the Mahabandha to fill up the gaps and so on. The Jain calendar records a precession in the Vedāṁga Jyotiṣa calendar during this period, and the establishment of Vikrama Samvat in India. Perhaps this was the era when various texts quoted by Virsenācārya were compiled for mathematical imports of the karma philosophy. For example, the Varangā sūtra, the Vedanākṣetravidhāna, the Khettaniogaddāra, the Pariyama, the Kālavihāno, and so on were some of the mathematical texts which could survive against the time.6
The cosmological texts including astronomy and geography, e.g., the Tiloyapaṇṇatti, the Suryaprajñapti, the Candapanṇatti, and so on, did not only depict calendrical details as the Vedamga Jyotisa but there was also a unified astronomical theory, set in a mathematical universe.7 When several processes are depicted through a single manipulation it becomes a unified theory which is regarded as simple. The Greeks split it through the epicycles for finer calculations. Einstein gave a unified theory. Now there is an attempt for a theory of everything (TOE) on physics. The Jaina School tried to give such a theory of everything for the biological phenomena through the mathematical theory of karma. The question is whether we should computerise such a theory and prepare files in the software to execute programmes as if happening even in astrology. What could be the results for the benefit of society or a nation? Astronomical programmes will be found to be simpler. Roger Billiard has already computerised the Yuga system of Indian astronomy leaving the Prakrit version of a calendar. Success in building up various programmes in the karma theory will depend on how we are able to form states, inputs and outputs from the mathematical data
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