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thereof flows down, (to the bottom) a crystal-clear stream of water having 1 angula for the diameter of its circular section, and the well becomes quite filled with water within. What is the height of the hill, and (what) the numerical value (of the liquid-measure) of water?
17. A king gave, on (the occasion of) the sankranti, to 6 Brahmins, 2 dronas of kidney-beau, 9 kudabas of ghee, 6 dronus of rice, 8 pairs of cloths, 6 cows with calves and 3 svarnas. Give out quickly, O friend, what (the measure) is (of) the kidney-bean and the other things given by him (at that rate) to 336 Brahmins. Ilere ends the (direct) rule-of-three.
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Examples on inverse rule-of-three as explained in the fourth pada (of the rule given above).
18. How much is the gold of 9 varnas for 90 of pure gold, as also for 100 gold (Dharanas) along with a gunja thereof made up of gold of 10 varnus!
19. There are 300 pieces of China silk of 6 hastas in breadth as well as in length; give out, O you who know the method of inverse proportion, how many pieces (of that same silk) there are (in them, each) measuring 5 by hastas.
Here onds the inverse rule-of-three.
An example on inverse double rule-of-three.
20. Say how many pieces of that famous clothing, cach measuring 2 hastas in breadth and 3 hastas in longth, are to be found in 70 (piecos) of China silk, (each) measuring 5 hastas in breadth and 9 hastas in length.
An example on inverse treble rule-of-three.
21. Say how many images of Tirthankaras, (each) measuring 2 by 6 by 1 hastas, there may be in a big gem, which is 4 hastas in breadth, 9 hastas in length and 8 hastas in height.
17. Sankranti in the passage of the sun from one zodiacal sign to another. 18. Pure gold is here taken to be of 16 rarnas.
The reference here is to the fourth quarter of the second stanza in this
chapter.
