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An Epitome of Jainism In the footnote to table on page 108, it has been demonstrated that really there are only two unknowns--D. and M. Let us see what they are.
D. or Jaghanya Parita Asamkhyata
(d) (B1)
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To find D., i.e. Jaghanya Parîta Asamkhyâta.
Let there be four pits each of 1 lac Yojanas in diameter, and 1000 Yojanas deep and called : Anavastha Salâkâ Pratiśalâkâ .
.. (71) Mahāśalâkâ Fill d1 with round rape-seeds; overfill it from its mouth suriace in a regular conical form, the apex of which is one rape-seed; as ^
The number of seeds in the pit is 197912092999
680000000000000000} 45 figs.
000000000000000 (31 zeroes).
The number in the cone above
179920084545167 3636363636363636} 46 figs, 3636363636363636 ) (16 thirty sixes).
The total seeds are 199711293845131636363636367
3636363636363636363646. 46 figs.
Say 2 ) From this filiing of dì, drop one seed in Bi.
Then take up the seeds from d', and drop one seed on each of the Continents and Oceans beginning with Jambûdvîpa. Where the last seed is dropped, it would be an Ocean. (Disregard the "/u seed, which will not be in the Cone). Now dig a pit of the diameter of this Ocean, of the same depth, i.e. 1000 Yojanas. Call it da; and fill it in with rape-sceds like a topping Conc, as d' was filled in. Then drop another rape-seed in B' from the filling cf d2.
Then take up the seeds from d? and drop one each on the Continents and Oceans beginning with the Continent next to the Ocean where the last seed from di was dropped. Wherever in a Continent or Ocean the last seed of d? is dropped, take the diameter of that as the diameter of the next pit ds which is also 1000 Yojanas deep. Fill it up conically like all and do. From the filling of dy, drop a third rape-seed into Bl.
Repeat till B1 is filled in the usual top Conical form. The number of seeds in B' is Z; and much greater in each of the pits di to da successively, because their diameters are much larger at each step.
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