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273 = (256)256
Using the above notation, the writer of these lines was able to obtain a good lower bound for the jaghanya parīta asaṁkhyāta (minimal limited innumerable). It can be expressed as
log [kN]/(log 8)
where the integer next to N is given by
7.9656 x 10135 (nearly)
and kis great than
45
121010
It should be noted that this value of k is better than that of ga obtained by Muni Mahendra Kumar II in his Visvaprahelikā (Bombay, 1969), and of course, a part of the mathematics of the Jaina cosmos that requires a strenuous imagination. U
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