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An example in illustration thereof. 155 and 156. The original price of one piece of sandalwood and one piece of agaru wood, they being together 20 palas (in weight), is 104 panns; when after a time they were sold with their prices mutually alterod, 116 panas were obtained. You give out their buying and selling rates and the numerical measure of the commodities, taking 0 and 8 separately as the optional (number) needed by the rule.
The rule for arriving at the distance in yojanas travelled by the horses of the sun's chariot when yoked as desired :
157. Tho number representing the total yojanas, divided by the total number of horses, gives the yojanas (which each has at a stage to travol) in turn Theso yojanas, as multiplied by the optionally chosen uumber of horses to be yoked, give the measure of the distance to be travelled over by each horse.
An example in illustration thereof. 158. It is well-known that the horses belonging to tho sun's chariot are 7. Four horson (have to drag it along, being harnessed to the soko. They have to do a journey of 70 yojanas. How many times are thoy unyoked and how many times yoked (again) in four ?
The rule for arriving at the value of the commodity to be found in the hands of oach (of a body of joint proprietors), from the Bonjoint remainder left after subtracting whatever is desired from he total value of all the commodities :
159. Let the sum of the values of the conjoint remainders) of ho commodities be divided by the number of men lessened by one; ihe quotient will be the total value of all the commodities (owned n common). This total valuo as diminished by the specified values rives in the corresponding cases) the value of commodity in the lands (of each of the proprietors in turn).
An example in illustration thereof. 160 to 162. Four merchants who had invested their money in ommon were asked oach separately by the customs officer what he value of the commodity (they were dealing in) was ; and one
