Jain Journal 1995 10

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

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PADMAVATHAMMA: ASCETIC MOTHER VISUDDHAMATI
on cosmology, cosmogony and cosmography. Both the Tiloyapanṇatti and the Trilokasära have been subject to intense research by scholars like B.B. Datta, R.C. Gupta5, L.C. Jain and T.A. Sarasvati Amma.7
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7. Motivation
After the release of the Hindi commentary of the Trilokasāra in 1974, the Tiloyapannatti was taken up for study under the guidance of Śri Śrutasagara and Śri Ajitasāgara. But after stanza 150, due to doubts at many places (for which no explanations were available at that time), study became uninteresting. But in the same year Pandit Ratanchand Mukhtyar came to the Mother and clarified all the doubts which she noted down carefully in a file.
Mātāji had gone to Udaipur for the inauguration of Śrī Mahāvīra Jain Temple in the year 1981. When she was about to leave Udaipur, unfortunately she fell down from the steps resulting in the fracture of both legs.
One day she happened to turn over the pages of the old file of the Tiloyapannatti. After seeing the stanzas she thought to herself "Today my legs are broken, likewise one day I may die and this file may be closed for ever". This thought made her decide to take up the work of the Tiloyapanṇatti.
After resuming the work she noticed some mistakes and incompleteness in some of the verses of the already published works.
4. B.B. Dutta Mathematics of Nemichandra, Jaina Antiquary I, no, ii, 1935, pp. 25-44.
5. (a) R.C. Gupta, Indra's and other Octogonal derivations of the Jaina Value = √10, I.J.H.S, 21(2), 1986, pp.131-139.
(b) Circumference of the Jambudvipa in Jaina Cosmography, I.J.H.S, Vol. 10, No. 10, 1975, pp. 38-46.
6. (a) L.C. Jain, Tiloyapanṇatti kā Gaṇita, Sholapur, 1958, pp. 1-109. (b) Divergent Sequences Locating Transfinite Sets in Trilokasära, I.J.H.S, Vol. 12, No.1, May, 1977, pp. 57-75.
(c) On Spiro-elliptic Motion of the Sun implicit in the Tiloyapannatti, I.J.H.S,Vol. 13, No. 1, 1978, pp.42-49.
(d) Kinematics of the Sun and the Moon in Tiloyapannatti, Tulsi Prajna, J.V.B, Ladnun, Feb-March, 1995, pp. 60-67.
(e) The Kinematic Motion of Astral Real and Counter Bodies in Trilokasāra, Calcutta, I.J.H.S, Vol.II, No.1, 1976, pp.58-74.
7. (a) T.A, Sarasvati Amma The Mathematics of the first four Mahadhikāras
of the Trilokaprajñapti, Jour, Gang. Res. Inst. 18, 1961-62, pp.27-51. (b) The Development of Mathematical Series in India after Bhaskara II, Bulletin of the National Institute of Sciences in India, 21, 1963, pp. 320343.