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CHAPTER IV-MISCELLANEOUS PROBLEMS (ON FRACTIONS)85
71. (Elephants equivalent in number to) part of the whole herd of elephants, as multiplied by ! (of that same berd) as divided by 2, are in a happy condition on a plain. The romaining ones forming (of the herd), resembling exceedingly dark masses of clouds in form, are playing on a mountain. O friond, you tell me now the numerical measure of the hord of elephauts.
72. (Ascetics equivalent in number to a part of a collection of ascetics, us divided by 3 and as multiplied by that same Ga part divided by 3), are living in the interior of a forest ; (the remaining ones forming) i part of that collection) are living on a mountain. 1) you, who have crossed over to the other shore of the ocean-like miscellaneous problems ou fractions, tell me quickly the numerical) value of that collection of ancotics).
Here ends the Bhinnulya variety
Thus ends the third subject of treatment known as Prakirnuku in Sārasangraha which is a work on arithmetic by Mahāvīrācārya.
71. The word prthvi occurring in this stanza wenn 'threarth, and in its the name of the metre in which the tunza in compared
