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Note: The verse for example is as follows:
nabha-nabha-ti-cha-ekkekkam anka-kame homti savva
Translation: All debtors were (given by) zero, sky, sky, three, six, one and one (116300), in ordered digits. The total number of these seven classes is given by sky, sky, eight, four, eight and two (2848000) in sequence of digits.
vādigaṇā/
suttagaṇā ṇabha-ambara-gayanaṭṭha-caukka-aḍa donni//1176//
gayaṇa nabha
sunna
tha
sunna
sky-sky indirectness
Note: Here the presence of a Cakravarti in the period of a Tirthankara is shown by 1 and his absence by 0. Total boxes are 34.]
place second
Note: The area of the Videha region as 2969349902/300 361 is shown in the following verse where kha occurs (4th to 5th century C.E):
zero
00 for (10)2 product placing in some of the boxes showing directness and
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indirectness between
fordpounders and Cakravartis
zero
Ch. 4, V. 1228 Ch. 4, VV. 12981302
du-kha-nava-cau-tiya-nava-chauṇava-duga joyaṇekka-pattie/ bhāgā tiņņi saya igi-chattiya-haridā videha khatta phalaṁ//
Translation: The area in square yojanas of Videha is given by the number (written from right to left) as two, sky (kha) nine, nine, four, three, nine, nine, six, two yojanas (square) in a line. (To this is added) three hundred divided by one, six, three (or 361).
kham-ṇabha
sky-sky
00 or (10)2
Now we come tothe 10th-11th century work, TLS.
Ch. 4, V. 2407, V. 2807
Ch. 4, V. 2682
31 zeros or (10)31 TLS, V. 21, p. 28
[Note: Here the number 19791209299968(10) is given in place value in words as vitha, nidhi, naga, nava, ravi, nabha, etc., from left to right.]
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