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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The notation in decimals may be seen at peak denominations of time in years in Chapter IV of TPT(V). described in VV.294 et seg. They are as follows:
in the This is
Denominations of Notation dasa sada
sahassa
dasa sahassa
lakkha
(pūrvanga) puvvānga (pūrva) puvva
Meaning
Remarks ten
two yugas of four years each hundred
on multiplying by 10 from the
preceding thousand on multiplying by 10 from the
preceding ten thousand on multiplying by 10 from the
preceding lakh
on multiplying by 10 from
the preceding (10)5x84 on multiplying the preceding by 84 [(10)X8412 on squaring the preceding or
7056(10)10 [(10)5x8412884 on multiplying the preceding by 84 [(10)5x84]2X84X84X(1095
on multiplying the preceding by
84(10)5 [(10)5x8412x84x84X(10)5x84
on multiplying the preceding by 84 (10)20(84)6 on multiplying the preceding by
84(10)5 (10)20(84)7 on multiplying the preceding by 84 (10)25(84)8 on multiplying the preceding by
84(10)S
(parvänga) pavvānga (parva) pαννα
nayutanga
nayuta
kumudānga kumuda
The above process of multiplication with 84 and 84(10)5 goes on until mahalata is obtained. Then the process of multiplication by 84 lakh or 84(10) continually gives Śrīkalpa, hastaprahelita and ultimately acalatma whose value is (10)9°(84)51 years. This is to be carried over to maximal numerate (utkyst samkhyāta), of which the process of construction has been very elaborately described by R.C. Gupta, as maximal numerate plus one, or as the first maximal innumerate. 30
It may be noted that for setting the measure of various types of sets in karma theory, there have been various types of constructed numbers as numerate, innumerate and infinite which have not been expressed to dazzling heights without any purpose. Hence it appears that the school needed a system of this decimal type in their theory:37
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