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Words For Zero
First the words for zero are examined from CKG, DVL and KPS, J DL: Word
Value
Remarks
zero
Meaning avahirijjanti38 making a set zero
by reduction (exhaustion one by one)
attha sunna
viņāsaṇaṭṭham (tattha) avahiranti
antarmuhurta
tending towards muhurta in the limit
of difference tending
to zero
avaharraṭṭhā
seen symbols for division
satditthiņa ditthā values of denominations
khavaga
anantā bhāgassa infinitesimal
anantim bhaga
part of infinites
asamkha bhaga innumerable part
asamkhajjodi bhāga
abhāva
sunnaṭṭhāna
gayana
nabha
for removal of zeros at the end
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making a set zero or or exhausted
of time
destroyer or annihilator
innumerable part
absence
zero place
sky
sky
eight
zero
approximate
limit
to infinitesimal
major part limit to
innumerably small part limit to
innumerably small part
nil
zero
zero
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DVL 1, 2, 3. Concept of exhaustion one by one and
1-1
correspondence, p. 28. Book 3, vide p. 220, also DVL 1, 2, 4, p.
36
CKG 1, 2, 3, p.
27, vide also p.
230, in VV, 1, 2,
3, 4, 1, 1, 35 DVL, 1, 2, 6, p. 69
DVL, p. 37,1, 2, 6, p. 87
DVL, p. 94, 12, 12, p. 94
DVL, p. 121, 1,
2, 15
DVL, p. 63, 1, 2, 16, p. 130
CKG, 1, 2, 17
DVL, 1, 2, 18, p. 160-1
DVL, 1, 2, 19, p.
181, 188
DVL, p. 71: 1, 2,
45
p.225 in place
value
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