Book Title: Scientific Secrets of Jainism
Author(s): Nandighoshvijay
Publisher: Research Institute of Scientific Secrets from Indian Oriental Scriptures Ahmedabad
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Limitations Of Mathematics In Jain Philosophy And....
(This is a whole. That is whole. Whole can be obtained from whole and if whole is completely taken out of a whole, only a whole remains.)
The concepts of innumerable and the infinite in Jain mathematics also represent this same concept. Innumerable numbers have innumerable types or divisions. If an innumerable number is subtracted from an innumerable number, what remains is an innumerable number. Similarly, if an infinite number is subtracted from an infinite number, what remains is an infinite number because an infinite number has infinite types or divisions.
Bhagavān Mahāvira and Gautama Buddha respectively founded the Jain religion and the Bauddha religion before 527 B.C., gave their sermons and propagated their religious doctrines.
Jain canonical literature is divided into four sections : 1. Dravyānuyoga 2. Ganitānuyoga 3. Caraṇakaraṇānuyoga 4. Dharmakathānuyoga
Jambūdvipaprajñapti, Suryaprajñapti, Candraprajñapti, Dvipasāgaraprajñapti etc.Jain Agamas and other treatises like Laghuksētrasamāsa Brhatkņētrasamāsa Laghusangrahani Brhatsangrahani and Jyotisakarandaka etc. belong to the Ganitanuyoga section. Jain Ganita i.e..Jain Mathematics of those days can be divided into two sections.“
1. Ganitānuyoga :- Mathematical Doctrines 2. Sankhayāna :- Science of Numbers
Similarly, mathematics found in the Buddhist literature can be divided into three sections :
1. Mudrā - i.e. Arithmetic of Finger 2. Gañana - i.e. Mental Arithmetic and 3. Sankhayāna - i.e.Higher Arithmetic.*
The Jain canonical scriptures entitled 'Jambūdvi paprajñapti' shows a numeral of Jain arithmetic. Of course, it has base of ten. After the
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