Sambodhi 2000 Vol 23

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

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Vol. XXIII, 2000
VEDIC SOURCES OF THE 'VEDIC MATHEMATICS Fifty maid servants (8.19.36) 70,000 (8.46.22) Fifty three dice (10.34.8)
One lakh (2.14.6) Sixty three Maruts (8.96.8) Five lakhs (4.30.15) Ninety (1.80.8; 1.121.13; 1.130.7.) Many lakhs (2.14.7) Series of two 2, 4, 6, 8 numbers of horses were used for chariot. Series of ten 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100 (2.18.5-6). The series of 10 upto 1012 is given in the Yajurveda Samhitā, with the successive terms as Eka (1), daśa (10), Sata (100), Sahasra (1,000), Ayuta (10,000), Niyuta (1,00,000), Prayuta (10,00,000), Arbuda (1,00,00,000), Nyarbuda (10,00,00,000), Samudra (1,00,00,00,000), Madhya (10,00,00,00,000), Anta (1,00,00,00,00,000) and Parārdha (10,00,00,00,00,000). (Y.V.17.2) The series of odd figures 1,3,5,7,9... 31,33 (Y.V.18.24). The series of four 4,8,12,16... 48 (Y.V.18.25) The series of į, 17, 2, 2, 3, 3į and 4 (Y.V.18.26) In the Taittirîya Samhita, too, the following series are mentioned (T.S. 8.2.11-20) : The arithmetic series of odd figures 1,3,5,... 19, 29, 39... 99. The series of two 2,4,6,8,... upto 20. The series of four 4,8,12,16,20. The series of five 5,10,15,20 ... upto 100. The series of ten 10,20,30,40 ... upto 100. The series of twenty 20,40,60 and 80. The series of hundred 100,200,300 upto 1000. The series of Ten from 10,100,1000... upto 1012. The multiplications : 4 X 5 = 100 = 5 x 20 = 10 x 10 = 20 X 5. In the Atharvaveda large figures like Sata, Sahasra, Ayuta, and Nyarbuda are mentioned (Ath. V. 8.8.7). The decimal system in the Atharveda is 5 and 50, 7 and 70, 9 and 90, 1 and 10, 2 and 20, 3 and 30 (A.V.6.25.1-3; 7.4.1; 19.47.3-5).