A Concise History of Science in India c7.2

c7.2

Of the various religious sects that attained prominence in the closing phase of the Vedic period, the Jainas deserve special notice for their interest in, and cultivation of, mathematics. Their canonical literature lays great emphasis on mathematics and enumerates various topics such as number reckoning, fundamental operations, geometry, mensuration, fractions, equations, permutations and combinations. In some departments they made advances further than where the Vedic Hindus had left off.