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

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________________ 188 JANITASĀRASANGRAHA. wealth. Of hat nature are the prices of those azure-blue gems, emeralds, and diamonds ? The role for arriving at the value of the) invested capital by means of the rate of purchase, the rate of sale, and the profit obtained : 167. The buying and the selling rate-measuros of the com. modity are each multiplied alternately by the rate-prices ; (the product obtained with the help of) the buying rate-measure is divided by the other product obtained with the aid of) the selling rate-measure. The profit, divided by the rosulting quotient as diminished by one, gives rise to the originally employed capital amount An example in illustration thereof. 168. A merchant buys at the rate of 7 prasthas of grain for 3 panas, and sells it at the rate of 9 prasthas for 5 panas, and makes & profit of 72 panus. What is the capital employed in this transaction P Thus ends Sakali-kuttikäru in the chapter on mixed problems. Suvarna-kuttikära. Hereafter wg ahall explain that kuttikära which consists of oaloulations relating to gold. The rulo for arriving at the rarna of the resulting mixed gold obtained by putting together (different component varieties of) gold of (various) desired varnas : 109. It has to be known that the sum of the various) products of (the various component quantities of) gold as multiplied by (their respective) marnas, whon divided by (the total quantity of) 107. If the buying rate is a things for b and the selling rate is c things for d, and it m in the gain by the trannction, then the capital invested in

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