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Scientific Thought Evident in the Labdhisāra
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as B. B. Datta 36 has given them in details. Some methods given in the GJK and GKK have not been exposed so far. Similarly, details have been given in the LDS and KNS regarding manipulation of the various types of Karma data in form of matrices. 37 All these deserve place in the history of science.
Concluding Remarks
It is now evident that the Digambara Jaina School paid special. attention to the study of the Karma theory and developed it through mathematical manoeuvre in their own way. This tradition in writing seems to have started some where in the first century A.D., ranging up to the eighteenth century A.D. Most of the fundamental work appears to have been done in the South India, where Mahavīrācārya compiled his Ganita-sära-samgraha, and perhaps most of the methods and procedures based on the mathematical contents of the Agama might have given him an urge for the compilation.
Through the present project, the whole material relevant to that of the Labdhisāra, and that of the Labdhisāra itself has been systematically compiled, for an easy access and survey of this unified work of about eighteen hundred years of a continuous tradition of the Digambara Jaina School, which had been all along distinguishing, isolated and unexposed for several years after the publication of the Gamita-sāra-samgraha:
The project may bring to the notice of scholars, not only the mathematical contents of the Labdhisāra and of its relevant texts, but also the way in which it was applied to the theory of karma. It is upto the scholars to see what methods and procedures adopted in these texts and their commentaries, interlinked together, might have been originated or developed in this school, pursuing the same model of Karma theory all along.
The author should apologize for any short coming in this project accomplishment owing to his pursuit of this eighteen hundred years of traditional learning in order to give a unified survey of it, along
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