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Ganitashastra (Mathematics and Algebra)
Source: archive.org: Hindu MathematicsThe Minus sign in the Bakhshali manuscript is represented as a + (modern plus sign).—Hoernle presumed the Bakhshali minus sign to be the abbreviation ka of the Sanskrit word kanita, or nu (or nū) of nyūna, both of which mean diminished and both of which abbreviations in the Brahmi characters would be denoted by a cross. Hoernle was right, thinks Datta, so far as he sought for the origin of + in a tachygraphic abbreviation of some Sanskrit word. But as neither the word kanita nor nyūna is found to have been used in the Bakhshali work in connection with the subtractive operation, Datta finally rejects the theory of Hoernle and believes it to be the abbreviation kṣa, from kṣaya (decrease) which occurs several times, indeed, more than any other word indicative of subtraction. The sign for kṣa, whether in the Brahmi characters or in Bakhshali characters, differs from the simple cross (+) only in having a little flourish at the lower end of the vertical line. The flourish seems to have been dropped subsequently for convenient simplification.
Ganitashastra (शिल्पशास्त्र, gaṇitaśāstra) refers to the ancient Indian science of mathematics, algebra, number theory, arithmetic, etc. Closely allied with astronomy, both were commonly taught and studied in universities, even since the 1st millennium BCE. Ganita-shastra also includes ritualistic math-books such as the Shulba-sutras.
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Bhagavati-sutra (Viyaha-pannatti) (by K. C. Lalwani)
Part 4 - Karma and its span < [Chapter 3]
Part 3 - Bondage due to the formation of fluid body < [Chapter 9]
Part 2 - Body-type bondage < [Chapter 9]
Tattvartha Sutra (with commentary) (by Vijay K. Jain)
Verse 3.27 - The rise (regeneration) and fall (degeneration) < [Chapter 3 - The Lower World and the Middle World]
Saindhava's Death < [January - March 1976]
Prayer < [April – June, 2008]
Jerome and “The Story of the Thames” < [January – March, 1984]
The Agni Purana (by N. Gangadharan)
Manusmriti with the Commentary of Medhatithi (by Ganganatha Jha)
Verse 11.220 < [Section XXIX - Description of the Expiatory Penances]
A Manual of Khshnoom (by Phiroz Nasarvanji Tavaria)
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