CHAPTER VI--MIXED PROBLEMS 9B
CHAPTER VI.
MIXED PROBLEMS
The Fifth Subject of Treatment
1. For attaining the supreme good, we worshipfully salute the holy Jinas, who are in possession of the fourfold infinite attributes, who are the makers of tīrthas, who have attained self-conquest, are pure, are honoured in all the three worlds and are also excellent preceptors—the Jinas who have gone over to the (other) shore of the ocean of the Jaina doctrines, and are the guides and teachers of (all) born beings, and who, being the abode of all good qualities, are good in themselves and do good to others.
Hereafter We shall expound the fifth subject of treatment known as mixed problems. It is as follows:--
Statement of the meaning of the technical terms saṅkramaṇa and vișama-saṅkramaṇa:
2. Those who have gone to the end of the ocean of calculation say that the halving of the sum and of the difference (of any two quantities) is (known as) saṅkramaṇa, and that the saṅkramaṇa of two quantities which are (respectively) the divisor and the quotient is that which is vișama(i.e., vișama-saṅkramaṇa).
Examples in illustration thereof.
3. What is the saṅkramaṇa where the number 12 (is associated) with 2; and what is the divisional vișama-saṅkramaṇa of that (same) number (12 in relation to 2) ?
1.^ Tirtha is interpreted to mean a ford intended to cross the river of mundane existence which is subject to karma and reincarnation. The Jinas are conceived to be capable of enabling the souls of men to get out of the stream of samsāra or the recurring cycle of embodied existence. The Jinas are therefore called tīrthaṅkaras.
2{{note|2}. Algebraically the saṅkramaṇa of any two quantities a and b is finding out and their vișama-saṅkramaṇa is ariving at and .
