Dear Harsha, I don’t know if a direct link can be demonstrated , but it is notable that, in their cosmological speculations, Adhidharma texts and Mahāyāna sūtras seem also to have become fascinated with large multiples of 10, such as the famous Trisahasra-mahāsahasra, 1000 cubed. The mathematical discovery of how much could be made out of nothing perhaps played a role here.
Matthew Matthew Kapstein EPHE, Paris Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef> ________________________________ From: INDOLOGY <[email protected]> on behalf of Harsha Dehejia via INDOLOGY <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2022 12:50:25 PM To: Indology List <[email protected]> Subject: [INDOLOGY] Sunya Friends: Is there any evidence that the sunya of mathematics arose out of the sunyata of Mahayana Buddhism? Kind regards, Hrtsha Harsha V. Dehejia
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