A Concise History of Science in India c7.s3.3

c7.s3.3

These subjects and the various technical terms used by the Jainas passed later on into the mathematical works of scholars irrespective of their religious beliefs and adherences. It is thus quite reasonable to believe that in the period intervening the literature of the *Brāhmaṇas* and the *Sūtras* of the various Vedic schools and the period of specialization and Siddhāntic astronomy from about the fourth or fifth century A.D. the Jaina mathematicians played a significant role. The disappearance of their works might be due to (*a*) supersession of their simple processes and methods by better and more sophisticated ones due to Āryabhaṭa, Brahmagupta, Mahāvīra, Śrīpati, Śrīdhara, Bhāskara and others and (*b*) progressive deterioration of the culture of mathematics in their religious order.