Jain Journal 1978 10

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

Page 20

OCTOBER, 1978
Apart from the above, Todaramala's introduction to every chapter on the Arthasamdṛṣṭi as well as the texts gives a survey of the whole material to be used in the subsequent pages, the manipulation of the symbolic material and comprehensive details of the new terms in form of either definitions or in actual operation through numerical symbolism. Introduction to the Labdhisara is a marvelous exposition without which the very motivation and implications of the symbolic expressions and figures could not be unearthed. There is no other exhaustive commentary on the Kṣapaṇāsāra except the Samyakjñānacandrikā.
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The speciality of the Arthasamdṛṣṭi chapters of Todaramala is that they start with the initial notations and symbols in full details. He defines the word Arthasamdṛśți as, "The measure etc. of arbitrary fluents, fields, times and phases is called Artha. Samdṛṣṭi means symbolism' (p. 1). He gives details of the number and simile measures in numerical, algebraic and geometric symbols, (pp. 3-7). He then defines all types of operations fundamental in Karma theory (pp. 8-21). The tables for various measures of sets are detailed clearly (pp. 25-193). A few additional symbols for Karma theory appear (p. 195). The dynamical details of the Karma system through changes in the tetrad are depicted in all the three types of symbols, in the initial control station, with very few details of the next three control stations (pp. 196-307).
Todaramala is to be credited for giving ample of geometric figures with full explanations wherever he could. The figures inclined towards the vertical denote the decreasing or increasing mass-numbers. The figures inclined towards the horizontal denote the trend in the energy levels. The process of subsidence is reversible, although it attains controllability and reachability of original vision and disposition. The process of annihilation is not reversible. After attainment of contorllability, it ultimately reaches the state of original realization.
Concluding Remarks
The research papers published so far, on the Jaina School of Mathematics, do not give a complete picture of system-theoretic technique, the Karma decisions which had motivated and originated the naive set theory of finite and transfintite measures at the period when the Greeks were just preparing for foundational studies in geometry of Statics and Kinematics of simple phenomena of the observables. The contributions of the Indians was on the non-observables through abstraction. This tradition did not lose the grip over the posteriority till 1800 A.D. and the last worker on the system theory in mathematical details appears to be Todaramala who died in 1767 A.D.