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GANITABĀRA SANGRAHA.
7. He, who, being the receptacle of the (numerons) rivers of learning, is characterised by the adamantine bank of propriety and holds the gems (of Jainism) within, and (80) is appropriately famous as the great ocean of moral excellence:
8. May (bis rulo)--the rule of that sovereign lord who has destroyed in philosophical controversy the position of single oonclusions and propounds the logic of the syadrāda-may the rule) of that Nrpatunga prosper !
An Appreciation of the Science of Calculation.
9. In all those transactions which relate to worldly, Vedic or (othor) similarly religione affairs, calculation is of use,
10. In the science of love, in the science of wealth, in music and in the drama, in the art of cooking, and similarly in medicine and in things like the knowledge of architecture :
11. In prosody, in poetics and pootry, in logic and grammar and such other things, and in relation to all that constitutes the peculiar value of (all) the (various) arts: the science of computation is held in high estoem.
12. In relation to the movements of the sun and other heavenly bodies, in connection with colipses and the conjunctions of planets, and in connection with the triprašna + and the courso of the moon--indeed in all these (connections) it is utilised.
13-14. The number, the diameter and the perimeter of islands, oceans and mountains; the extensive dimensions of the rows of habitations and halls belonging to the inhabitants of tho
The nyddydila is a process of reasoning adopted by the Jainas in relation to the question of the reality or otherwisu of the totality of the perceptible objects found in the phenomenal aniverse. The word is translatable at the may-lo-argument; and this may-bo-argament declares that the phenomenal nnivorne (1) may be real, (2) may not be real, (3) may and may not be real, (4) may be indescribablo, (6) may bo real and indescribable, (6) may bu nareal and indoscribable, and (7) may be real and unreal and indescribable. The position represented by this argument is not, therefore, one of a single conolusion.
The tripraina is the name of a chapter in Sanskrit astronomical worko; And the fact that it deals with three questions in responsible for that nam.. The question dealt with sro Dik (diroption), Dita (position) and Kila (time) apportaining to the planets and other heavenly bodied,
