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Śramaṇa, Vol 56, No. 1-6/January-June 2005
with details of the Labdhisara, its mathematics as well as other scientific contents.
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In the above description various aspects have been touched as contents of the LDS: symbols, place-value notation for addition and subtraction, algebraic symbols, geometric symbols, combinations, theory of measure, eight basic operations, logarithm, counting-rod, rule of three sets, fractions, positive and negative numbers, geometrical methods, matrices, series and sequences, algorithmic verses, maxims, set concepts, logical decisions, structure concept, systems concepts and cybernetics, symbolic method, symmetry concepts and operational procedures.38
However, there have remained other aspects of study into the impact on the socio economic, socio logical, managerial as well as ecological life on the Indian nation and country, of the deep rooted karma systems eleborated in various philosophic schools of India, and perhaps abroad, in various maxims of the Bible as well as the Quran and other holy texts, whenever merits and demerits of bios got through a scientific trend of introspection. It is strange, to find that in such a remote past, the Karma theory in the Digambara Jaina School of thought could be pursued through mathematical as well as symbolic manoeuver, with an unbroken tradition of about eighteen hundred years. It also remains to be find whether in the karma systems, the dialectical materialism was present to play its decisive role.
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1. The Digambara Jaina School needed mathematical manoeuvre for the deep and extensive philosophy of its functional-theory (karma theory) which was a set up comparable with the modern system theory. The dialectic method of the Syāt-vāda system of predication in this school is comparable with that of Hegel who claims that the substance of all previous philosophies is contained, preserved, and observed, in his own system. (Vide Stace, W.T., (1955, BB), pp. 3, 92, 95 and so on. The proper infinities applied in the theory of karma needed a mathematical logic for avoiding paradoxes and antinomies. Cf. Jain, L.C. (may 1977, BR).
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