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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
CHAPTER V--RULE-OF-THREE.
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7. A good piece of krsnā garu, 12 hastas in length and 3 hastas in. diameter, is consumed (at the rate of) 1 cubic angula a day. What is the time required for the (complete) consumption of this cylinder ?
3. (If) a vāha of very superior black gram, along with 1 droạo, Iādhaka and l kudava (thereof), has been purchased by means of 10.4 svarnas, what measure (may we purchase of it) by means of 1001 svarnas?
9. Where 1} pala of kunkuma is obtainable by means of 3.1 purānas, what measure (of it) may (we obtuin) tliere by means of 100 purānas?
10. By means of 7 palas of ginger, 13. panas were obtained ; say, O friend, what (may be obtained) in return for 321 palas of ginger?
11. By means of 4 kārşāpanas, a man obtains 163 palas of silver; what (weight does he obtain thereof) by means of 10,000 karsas?
12. By means of 7% palas of camphor, a man obtains 5 dinaras along with 1 bhāga, 1 arsa and 1 kalā. What does he obtain) here by means of 1,000 palas (thereof) ?
13. The man who purchases here 5} palas of ghee by means of 3! panas--what (measure of it does he purchase) by means of 100% karsas?
14. By means of 5purānas, 16 pairs of cloths were obtained. O friend, say what number of them may be obtained) by means of 61 karşas ?
15-16. There is a square well without water, (cubically) measuring 512 hastas. A hill rises on its bank; from the top
7. Here the process of finding out, from the given diameter, the area of the cross-section of a cylinder is supposed to be known. This is given in the sixth Vyavahara, in the 19th stanza, where the area of a circle is said to be approximately equal to the diameter squared and then divided by 4 and multiplied by 3.
Krsnagaru is a kind of fragrant wood burnt in fire as incense.
15-16. In this problem, the stream of water is as long as the mountain is high, so that as soon as it reaches the bottom of the mountain, it is supposed to cease to flow at the summit. For finding out the quantity of water in Vāhas, etc., the relation between cubical measure and liquid measure should have been given. The Sanskrit commentary in P and the Kanarese tika in B state that 1 cabic angula of water is equal to 1 karsa thereof in liquid measure.
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