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Scientific Secrets of Jainism
in the above mentioned scientific concepts, all these concepts will be acceptable to Jain philosophy.
Thus the present-day scientific researches regarding time largely substantiate the concept of Jain philosophy. Mathematics in Laghusangrahanisūtra Jambūdvipasangrahanisūtra does not make any special use of mathematics. It only shows how to find the circumference and area of Jambūdvipa which has a diameter of 1,00,000 Yojanas.
The circumference of Jambūdvipa can be obtained by multiplying the square of its diameter by 10 and the finding square-root of the result. It can be shown in a formula as under :
Circumference = V10 ( diameter ) ? ..............1
The modern mathematics uses the following formula to find the circumference of a circle :
Circumference = 2 mt radius ..........................|| Comparing formulae (1) and (II) we get t = vio i. e.
tt = 3.1622776 approximately.
The area of Jambūdvipa can be obtained by multiplying the circumference of Jambūdvipa by one forth of its diameter i.e. one half of its radius. It can be shown in a formula as under :
diameter Area of a circle = circumference and
=
diameter 10(diameter) ? x 4
diameter. diameter
-
10
2radius. 2 radius
= vio radius 2
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