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up completely, and the series of pits dug thus will be termed A series.
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How D is to be filled up must be described now. For each time that a pit of A series is filled up one seed is dropped into the pit B till it is filled up to the top and, like a pyramid, above it, when a single seed will be thrown in the pit C, which is to be filled up like B. Thus each grain of mustard in C represents one filling of B; and each grain in B stands for one filling up of a pit of A series, of ever increasing diameter.
The difference between the filling of B and C is this that while a grain is added to B each time that a pit of the A series is filled, a grain is added to Conly at each filling up B. Pit D stands to C in the same relation as C does to B, so that D receives a single seed each time that C is filled up. The A series of pits continue all the time, with ever increasing diameter, as stated before, till D is filled up fully and like a pyramid.
Now, the number of seeds in the last of the A series of pits which is reached when D is completely filled up is the figure of the Jaghanya Pritasamkhyata (Minimum Preliminary Countless), which being incalculable is represented by our x. 5. Madhyama Pritasamkhyata (Intermediate Preliminary Countless) is
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