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types of sets have been formed as quantum states, through indivisible corresponding sections, instants (samayas) and points (pradeśas) and the quanta of Yoga and Kaşāya operators.
The four characteristic properties of bonding, state, rise, etc., as we have seen, lie in the four types of structures: configurations (prakstis), particle numbers (pradeśa-rāśis), energy (anubhāga), and life-time (sthiti). Charges appear as unctuousness (snigdhatva) and anti-unctuousness (ruksatva), measured in quantum levels of integers, odd and even, from zero to infinity.24
Now one has to concentrate on the operations in the Karmatheory, under which the above intrinsic properties change into one another of one types - class or remain invariant. The Digambara Jaina School had a very deep study of this type of symmetryoperations, and dealt with various types of creation and annihilation of matter in bond associated with the above intrinsic and other properties, and knew well as to when they remained invariant or otherwise. At present it cannot be said, how far they were acquainted with the group-properties of such operators and transformations but they knew as when, and what remained invariant or changed under what operations in the time series of instants.25
Thie problem of invention of Brāhmi and the Kharosthĩ alphabets and numerals has also not been solved. Although late, some of the ancient artha samdrsțis, may give a connecting link about the source. [Vide Das gupta, c.c., 1950 BR, in the "Exact Sciences in the Karma Antiquity').
Thus a study into the semantics of the samdęstis is essential from various aspects, from the language used in the commentaries of GJK, LDS and KNS, and through appearance of various signs and symbols in most of the sentences, for various operations to be performed alongwith mutual relations and their sequence. 26 Signs for the constellations (nakşatras) also appear in the TPT, in words, along the Zodiac. 27 Place value system has not only been used in writing big numbers, but also in methodical process of subtraction and addition of terms into certain factors of an expression.28
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