Book Title: Ganitasara Sangraha of Mahavira
Author(s): Rangacharya
Publisher: Rangacharya

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________________ CHAPTER VI-MIXBD PROBLEMB. CHAPTER VI. MIXED I'ROBLEMS. The Fifth Subject of Treatment, 1. For attaining the supreme good, we worshipfully saluto the holy Jinas, who are in possession of the fourfold infinito attributes, who are the makers of tirthas, who have attaineil self-conquoat, aro puro, are honoured in all the threr worlds and are also excellent preceptors--the Jinas who have gone over to the (other) shore of the oocan of the Jaina doctrines, and are the guides and teachers of (all) born beings, and who, being the abode of all good qualities, are good in themselves and do good to others. Hereafter we shall oxpound the fifth subjest of troatmont known as mixed problems. It is as follows: Statement of the meaning of the technical trrms kaikramana and visama-sankramane : 2. Those who have gone to the end of the orcan of calculation say that the halving of the sum and of the difference (of any two quantities) is (known ay) suikramma, and that the sakramona of two quantities which are respectively) the divinor and the quotient is that which is visuma (c., winnuna sakramana). Examples in illustration thereof. 3. What is the sakramau where the number 12 (is associatod) with 2; and what is the divisional visama-sankramana of that (same) number (12 in relation to 2) 1 Tirtha in interpreted tu nan ford intended to cross the river of mandare existence which is subject to karma und reincarnation, 'l be Jinul are conceived to be capable of enabling the souls of men to get out of the stream of madra or the recurring cycle of embolied existence. The Jinin are therefore called tirthaikarax. 2. Algebraically the sankramana of any two quantities a und bin firding out and after thuir virumu-nunkrumura in arriving at "** - and

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