Yatindrasuri Diksha Shatabdi Samrak Granth

Author(s): Jinprabhvijay
Publisher: Saudharmbruhat Tapagacchiya Shwetambar Shree Sangh

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YATEENDRASURI SMARAK GRANTH 2. Mathematical Terms, Symbols, And Events sion of calendar. Success in building up various Round About the Christian Era.
programmes in the Karma theory will depend on
how we are able to form states, input and outputs We shall relate the events and not go into their
from the mathematical data furnished in the comcontroversial details. Then it is upto the scholars
mentaries of the Gommata sara and the Labdhisara, to solve the problem of their source on the basis of oblem of their source on the basis of
the
through C** language. an indispensable necessity. Zero in the place value system was needed by the Jaina School. We also Let us have a look at the mathematical mate. find the place value system used in addition of the rial in these texts which could be helpful in comtactor as well as in their subtraction, in the puterization. The simile and the number measures Karnataka Vritti. Zero was used in the writing of (upama and samkhya pramana) are finite and the Mahabandha to fill up the gaps and so on. transfinite cardinals and ordinals of various types
of sets (rasis). There are fourteen types of seThe Jain calender records a precession in the
quences (dharas) in the Trilokasara" which locate Vedamga Jyotisa calender during this period, and
several types of sets and their measures. Every the Vikrama Samvat is established in India. Per
topic in the Karma theory deals with the minimum haps this was the era when various texts quoted
(jaghanya) and the maximum (utkrishta) fixing the by Virsenacarya were compilled for mathematical
domains and ranges between which the computer imports of the Karma philosophy. For example, the
is to work. The eight operations called the Varganasutra Vedanaksetravidhana, the
parikarmasataka not only deal with the finite Khottaniogaddara, Pariyamma, Kalavihano, and
quntities but also transfinite quantities as well as so on were some of the mathematical texts which
the fixed and variable sets. The trikona-yantra (tricould survive against the time.!
angular matrix) can be given several programmes The cosmological texts including astronomy
for the variability of the measures of the mass and geography, e.g., the Tiloyapannatti, the
number (pradesas), configurations (prakrtis), en. Suryaprajnapti, the Candapannatti, and so on, did
ergy levels (anubhagas) and the life-times (sthitis) not only depict calendrical details as the Vedamga
of the Karma ultimate particles (paramanus). The Jyotisa but there was also a unified astronomical
Labdhisara depicts these variations in a symbolic theory, set in a mathematical universe. When sev
way of mathematics. 12 The equations and inequaleral processes are depicted through a single 'ma
ity relations given in this way may pave the way to nipulation it becomes a unified theory which is re
more complex manipulation of the problems posed garded as simple. The Greeks splitted it through
in the modern set up of the Karmic data, the epicycles for finer calculations. Einstein gave
Before we give the measureable terms it will a unified theory. Now there is an attempt for a theory not be out of place to suggest that the vast mathof every thing (TOE) in physics. The Jaina School ematical data could be arranged in a computer file tried to give such a theory of every thing for the in a graded manner. From the lowest value we go biological phenomena through the mathematical to the largest value in a certain programme and theory of karma. 10 The question is whether we could these could be coded in one of the computer's high computerize such a theory and prepare files in the level languages such as Fortran Mathematica or software to execute programmes as is happening C++. The contiollable and observable situations even in astrology. What could be the resluts in the are defined in terms of the control (guna) and reachbenefit of a society or a nation? Astronomical pro
able (margana) stations (sthanas). Thus the comgrammes will be found to be simpler. Rogers Duter could be helpful in showing the time dependBillard has already computerized the Yuga sys- ent and time-independent phenomenology of the tem of Indian astronomy leaving the Prakrit ver- Karma theory of the Prakit texts referred above.