Jinamanjari 1999 04 No 19

________________ Notational and Decimal Key Words in the Earliest Works The Kasayapāhuḍa sutta of Gunadharācārya has been regarded as the earliest monumental work on the theory of karma (c. 1st century BC or later), about two hundred years earlier than the Chakkhaṇdāgama of Dharasenācārya's disciples, Puspadanta and Bhutabali (c. 2nd century AD). This text is in Saurseni Prakrit and was produced from the third Pahuda, "Pejjadasa" (Love and Malice) of the tenth Vastu of the fifth Purva, "Jñana Pravada" of the fourth class Purvagata from the Drstivada, the twelfth anga of Jaina scripture. It describes a profound and unified system-theoretic technique founded on the set theoretic approach, gradually developed through symbolic operational details of relations between phases of karmic material particles in the form of asrava (input), sattva (state), bandha (bond), nirjarā (output, etc.) over quantitative maps through matrices (vide LDS).41 The tradition goes back to the South Indian Śravanabelgola hill Candragiri, where ācārya Bhadrabahu-I (c. 4th century BC)42 along with his initiates, Maurya Emperor Candragupta (respective knower of 14 and 10 Purvas) spent twelve years in isolation, possibly for the purpose of recording karma theory through Brahmi and Sundari scripts (for mathematical expressions), some years earlier than Asoka's inscriptions began to in Brahmi.43 appear Word dasama (dasa) sadeaside panṇārasa ekkārasa aṭṭāvisam sattarasa solasa bārasa visa ūnavisa tirasa Meaning tenth Jain Education International one hundred and eighty fifteen eleven twenty-eight seventeen sixteen twelve twenty nineteen thirteen eighteen zero places (absence) numerable thousand Remarks KPS, V. 1, p. 1, V. 86, p. 611 V. 2, p. 4 V. 2, p. 4 V. 7, p. 8 V. 8, p. 9 V. 27, p. 260 V. 26, p. 261 V. 26, p. 261 V. 26, p. 261 V. 28, p. 263 V. 35, p. 267 aṭṭharasa sunnaṭṭhāṇā samkhejja sahassa [Note: The verse gives a rare type of place value in terms of a variable "numerable" (samkhajja) as follows V. 45, p. 274 V. 49, p. 277 and the following V. 114, p. 611 52 For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

SR No.	524019
Book Title	Jinamanjari 1999 04 No 19
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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