Jaina Thoughts on Unity Not Being a Number

Abstract

At one time, the Jainas in India and the Greeks in abroad held that unity was not a number. This paper provides an insight for the first time into the thoughts offered by the Jainas as to why unity was not a number for them.

Keywords:

• counting,
• Jaina school of Indian mathematics,
• measure,
• number,
• reckoning,
• unity