Sambodhi 2000 Vol 23

Author(s): Jitendra B Shah, N M Kansara
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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DR. N. M. KANSARA
SAMBO
the 'Ganita-sútra' or the Sulba-sutra, traditionally attached to the Atharvav a part of which is evidently referred to by him. Till then, the chaptei the Vedic source of these Sūtras cannot be finally closed.
Swami Pratyagatmananda Saraswati has referred to a consolidated metaphy background in the Vedas of the objective sciences including mathematics regards their basic conceptions.44 It will, therefore, be useful to briefly su the mathematical data as already available in the extant Vedic texts.
Mathematical Background in the Vedas :
Dr. R. P. Kulkarni has referred to the following data in the Vedas45 the remark that in fact the geometry of the Aryans is predominated arithmatics, and that they have algebraised geometry. The following figures with their increasing values occur in the Rgveda One year (1.110.4)
Ninety four (1.155.6) Two lips, Two breasts (2.39.6) Ninety nine (1.54.6; 1.84.13) Three wheeled chariot (3.34.2,5) Hundred roads (1.36.16; 1.53.8) Four eyes (1.31.13)
Hundred and seven (10.97.1) Five (1.164.12-13)
150 (1.133.4) Six horses (1.116.4)
210 cows (8.19.37) Seven Sindhus (7.35.8)
300 cows (5.36.6) Seven cities (1.6.7)
360 spokes (1.164.48) Eight directions (1.35.8)
440 horses (8.55.3) Nine days (1.116.24)
720 (1.164.11) Ten nights (1.116.24)
1,000 (1.164.41) Eleven (1.139.11)
3,380 gods (3.9.9) Twelve (1.164.48)
4,000 (5.30.12) Fourteen (10.114.6)
9,000 (1.80.8) Twenty Kings (1.53.9)
10,000 (5.27.1; 8.1.5) Twenty one secret places (1.72.6) 30,000 (4.30.21) Forty horses (1.126.4)
60,000 cows (1.126.3) Forty nine Maruts (7.51.3) 60.099 (1.53.9)