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GANITASĀRASANGRAHA.
CHAPTER III.
FRACTIONS. The Second Subject of Treatment. 1. Unto that excellent Lord of the Jinus, by whom the tree of karman has been completely uprooted, and whnae lotus-like feet are ouveloped in the halo of splendour proceeding from tho tops of the crowns belonging to the chief sovereigns in all the three worlds (unto that Lord of the Jinas), I bow in devotion.
Herenster, we shall expound the second subject of treatment known as Kalisuvurna* (i.e., fractions).
Multiplication of Fractions: The rule of work hero, in relation to tho multipliention of fractions, is as follows:
2. In tho multiplication of fractions, the numerators are to be multiplied by the numerators and the denominators by the denominators, after carrying out the process of croes-roduction, if that be possible in relation to thein.
Examples in illustration thereof. 3. Tell me, friend, what a person will got for of a pala of dricd gingor, if he gots of a pana for 1 pala of such ginger.
4. Where the price of 1 pala of pepper is of a puna, there, say, what the price will be of of a pala.
5. A person gets i of a palı of long peppor for 1 pana. O arithmetician, mention, after multiplying, what (he gets) for в рапав.
i. Where a merchant buy's of a pala of cumin seeds for 1 pana, there, you who possess complete knowledge, mention what (ho buys) for panus.
7. The numerators of the given fractious begin with 2 and go on increasing gradually by 2; again their denominators begin
Kaldmarna literally means parts resembling io, since kald donoter the sixteenth part. Honce the term Kulisavara has come to signify fraotions in general.
2. Whon fx is reduced as the process of cross-redaction is applied. 7. The fractions hereiu mentioned are: %, $,, da.
