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7. A good piece of krsnagaru, 12 hastes 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 raha of very superior black gram, along with 1 drone, 1 adhaka and 1 kudura (thereof), has been purchased by means of 10 svarnas, what measure (may we purchase of it) by means of 100 svarnas!
9. Where 1 pala of kunkuma is obtainable by means of 31 puranas, what measure (of it) may (we obtain) there by means of 100 puranas?
10. By means of 73 palas of ginger, 13 say, O friend, what (may be obtained) in of ginger?
panas were obtained:
return for 32 palas
11. By means of 44 karsapanas, a man obtains 16 palus of silver; what (weight does he obtain thereof) by means of 10,000 kargus?
12. By means of 7 palas of camphor, a man obtains 5 dinārus along with bhaga, 1 ansa and 1 kala. What does he obtain) here by means of 1,000 palux (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 1001 karsas!
14. By means of 5 puranas, 163 pairs of cloths were obtained. O friend, say what number of them may be obtained) by means of 61 kargus
15-16. There is a square well without water, (cubically) measuring 512 hastas. A hill rises on its bank; from the top
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7. Here the process of finding ont, from the given diameter, the aron of the Cross-Rection of a cylinder is supposed to be known. This is given in the sixth Iyavahara, in the 19th stanza, where the area of a circle is said to be approxi mately equal to the diameter squared and then divided by 4 and multiplied by 3. Kranagar is a kind of fragrant wood burnt in fire as incense.
15-16. In this problem, the stream of water in 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 Vahar, etc., the relation between cubical measure and liquid measure should have been given. The Sanskrit commentary in l' and the Kanarese fika in B state that 1 cabic angula of water is equal to J'karga thereof in liquid measure.
