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506. (Q.) What is this Anant-anant (infinite-infinite)?
(Ans.) Anant-anant (infinite-infinite) is of two kinds(1) Jaghanya Anant-anant (minimum infinite-infinite), and (2) Ajaghanya-anutkrisht Anant-anant (intermediate infiniteinfinite, i.e. neither maximum nor minimum).
Elaboration—In the aforesaid question-answers three basic categories of counting have been enumerated as countable, innumerable and infinite. Further, their sub-categories have been defined. Countable has three sub-categories, viz. maximum, intermediate and minimum. In case of innumerable and infinite the first two categories, Parit and Yukt, are same but the third one is called innumerable-innumerable and infinite-infinite respectively. In case of infinite-infinite there is no scope of maximum, therefore this sub-category is absent. Thus Infinite has only eight kinds. This information compressed as a table is as follows
(1) Three Samkhyat
1 Minimum
2. Intermediate
3. Maximum
(number 2)
(3 to one less the (has four typesmaximum)
aphorism 508) (2) Nine Innumerable
1. Parit-innumerable
2. Yukt-innumerable
3. innumerable-innumerable
1. Minimum 2. Intermediate 3. Maximum
4. Minimum 5. Intermediate 6. Maximum
7. Minimum 8. Intermediate 9. Maximum
(3) Eight Infinite
1. Part-infinite
2. Yukt-infinite
3 infinite-infinite
1 Minimum 2. Intermediate 3. Maximum
4. Minimum 5. Intermediate 6. Maximum
7. Minimum 8. Intermediate
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