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Re: Decimal system [Re: ntiwari] #14261 - 04/02/02 05:51 PM Edit Reply Quote

The Vedas do certainly have a word for Infinity, and that is Aditi. From a-da or a-do = to be untied, boundless. Aditi is Infinity or Infinite Expanse. Her counterpart is Diti or Finiteness. (relative aggregative finiteness of Prakrti?) The Adityas are the manifested sons of Aditi, and being twelve in number, give good computations for a circle (360 degrees = 12 x 30 degrees) and time (year of 360 days = 12 x 30). A day of 24 hours is 2x 12, etc. The concept of zero is expressed by the word Kha.m. or hollow emptiness in the RigVeda. Applied also for the hole in the nave of a wheel, through which the axis runs. (RV and SBr 14), which gives the shape of the zero sign. Kha means later the Sun(disc), which give Su-kha or good (de)light and duh-kha or bad (de)light. In the SuryaSiddhanta it stands also for Zero.