Bhagavana Mahavira and his Relevance in Modern Times

Author(s): Narendra Bhanavat, Prem Suman Jain, V P Bhatt
Publisher: Akhil Bharat Varshiya Sadhumargi Jain Sangh

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MATHEMATICAL FOUNDATIONS
OF JAINA KARMA SYSTEM
L. C. Jain
I. Introduction :
Extensive set-theoretic approach to expose Karma theory is available in several Prākrit texts. Yet for a mathematical and symbolic treatment of Karma representations and operations the detailed commentaries of Gommațasāra, Labdhisāra and Kșapaņāsāra form the only available exhaustive material.2 We propose to concentrate upon this prominent source.
No substantial research on mathematical foundations of Karma theory has been done so far, although the works of Datta, Singh, Sikdar and Jain had been just on the lines to the end. In this article we propose to pose the problem of recognizing evey basic concept and principle of Karma theory through mathematical rigour on modern lines.
However, this article is a preliminary attempt towards the formulation of a unified mathematical model to explain biophysical phenomena, and it is hoped that future researches will tend to make this perfect, correct and helpful for the cause of being beneficial to all.
At the outset it may be made clear that this work presupposes fundamental and philosophical knowledge of Karma theory4 in Jaina School. The development of Karma theory set up in the Jaina school of mathematics for dealing structural bonds appears to be neo-classical. 4 (a)