On Mathematical Contents of Jaina Prakrit Texts

Author(s): L C Jain
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-YATEENDRASURI SMARAK GRANTH Commatasara of Namicandra and he must have compiled the work as a Jaina. It Siddhantacakravarti, vols. 1-4, Bhartiya also seems possible that under certain circumJnana Pitha, New Delhi, 1978-81.
stances he might have adopted Saivism but
whether he wrote two such manuscripts after his The Ganitasara samgraha of Mahaviracarya,
conversion is doubtful. Thus looking into the needs ed, and trans. by L.C. Jain, Sholapur, 1963.
of the Digambara Jaina School of Mathematics in A hecent article short in the Ganita Bharati, the South, and both were Jainas in the Digambara vol. 9 (1987), numbers 1-4 P. 54-56, by Jaina Schools of Mathematics For this purpose of Ganitanand, Ranchi, has appeared on the convincing argument one may see the project work date of Sridhara. His remarks are worth men on the Labdhisara of Namicandra tioning here, S.B. Dixit (1896) had found a Siddhantackaravarti, Indian National Science reference to sridhara by name in an old Academy, 1984-87, by L.C. jain. manuscript of Mahavira's Ganitasara
Mention has been made by N.C. Jain while samgraha (ca. 85), and so put the former
he was at Arrah Jaina Siddhanta Bhavana, before the later. .... Royal Asiatic Society,
and this manuscript is not available now. Bombay Rs. 230 of GSS also ends with the words (ABORI? Vo. 31, p. 268)
Vide The Section of Mathematics in the Sci
ence and Civilization in China vol.3., by J. The similarity of several rules and of many
Needham and W. Ling, Cambridge, 1959. other features between the works of sridhara and mahavira is accepted by scholars. Both may have
These texts are in several volumes and have drawn from a third and common source which is gone out of print. New editions of the former not known nor likely to be known. But most of the are now coming out of the press scholars considered Mahavira as borrower (he him
Sathaandgama of Acarya Puspadanta and self named his work as a collection").
Bhutabali, Books 1-16, Amaroti, Vidisha,
1939-1959. Cf. Also, Kasaya Pahuda of The date circa 799 A.D. was assigned to
Gunabhadracharya, alongwith the Sridhara by N.C. Jain, by equating him to the Jaina
Jayadhavala commentary of Virsenacarya author of Jyotirhnanavidhi (799). And to reconcile
and Jinasenacarya, vol. 1-13, and the followsalutations 'Sivam' and 'Jinam' of the different
ing Mathura, 1944.. manuscripts it has been suggested that the same Sridhara, after writing mathematical works, may 8. For the texts of the Svetambara Jaina School, have turned a Jaina toward the end of his life.
cf. the exhaustive article, The Jaina School
of Mathematics, by B.B. Dutta, Bul. Cal. Math. The above note also gives the opinion of B.
Soc., vol. xxi, no. 2, 1929, pp. 115-145. Dutta and A.N. Singh as 750 A.D. as the probable date of Sridhara. It appears that the common source 9. For details, see the Jaina Astronomy' by Dr. material for both of the above mathematicians have
S.S. Lishk, (1978), Doctoral Thesis approved been the Kasayapahuda and the Satkhandagama by the (Patiala) Punjabi University, 1987, and their commentaries which might have been
Vidyasagara Publications, Delhi. Cf. also before them. As the modieval Jaina writers have Jain, L.C., (1976). On the Spira-elliptic Mobeen writing Jina and Siva for the same daity, some tion of the Sun implicit in the Tiloyapannatti, scribe might have got it changed under certain IJHS, vol. 13, no. 1, 1978, pp. 42-49. unknown circumstances. It does not seem possible that Sridhara could have availed the opportu
10. Jain, L.C. System Theory in Jaina School of nity of the Jaina source material as a non-Jaina,
Mathematics, IJHS, Vol. 14, no. 1, 1979, pp.
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