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APPENDIX I
Ex. 121, p. 68. If one and a half palas of musk can be obtained for twelve and one-fourth drammas, then for what can we obtain seven and one-third palas?1
Ans. 59 drammas, 14 panas and 177 kapardikās. Ex. 122, p. 69. Oh learned individual! if you know trairas'ika, let it be said as to how many palas of camphor can be had for 100 drammas when 1 palas of camphor can be had for 16 drammas-the camphor which vies with the beauty of the split of the tusks of a lordly elephant and to which a swarm of bees is called (attracted) by (its) odour.
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Ans. 9 palas, 1 dhaṭaka, and 1135 vallas. Ex. 123, p. 70. When the amount in futurity on 100 is 6, tell, oh friend! what is the amount in a total of 1000? [This comes to saying: Oh friend! tell (me) what 1000 will yield when 106 yield 6?]
Ans. 563.
Ex. 124, p. 70. Oh ganaka! if I
dhaṭakas of kunkuma are obtained for 5 panas, how much will 13 palas cost?
Ans. 4 drammas, 10 paņas, 2 kākinis and 133 kapardakas. Ex. 125, p. 71. Oh friend! if 2 mānikas are obtained for 8 minus } (8-1) panas, say for what 100 manikäs can be had.
Ans. 19 drammas, 12 panas, and 4 kapardakas. Ex. 126, p. 71. Oh learned man! if 24 manis of corn can be had for 61 drammas, tell me quickly what can be had for So drammas, in case your intellect in sarikhya-s'ästra (the science of numbers) is developed.
Ans. 28 mānikās and 215 hārikās. Ex. 127, p. 72. Oh one with good intelligence! if a certain lord of ele phants having a series of bees roaming about his cheeks starts to go, on remembering the sport with a female elephant of Vindhya and goes one-third of one half (i. e. ) yojana in 14 days (lit. two less by half), then within how many days can he go 70 yojanas?
Ans. I year and 9 months.
Ex. 128, p. 73. If a serpent having a body three and a half hands (in length) goes in a hole one and a half angulas in one-third of a ghați, oh ganaka! say quickly in what time it will enter it.
Ans. 18 ghatikas and 40 palas.
Ex. 129, p. 73. If one gadyanaka of gold along with one dharana of it is really obtained for 14 drammas, oh friend! how much gold can be had for ninety minus one-third (90-) drammas?
Ans. 9 gadyānakas, 4 niṣpāvas and 23 yavas.
1 Cf. Ganitasarasangraha p. 59 (v. 9).
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