yuga, VarNa and colour

[Lars Martin Fosse]

At 12:41 18.05.97 BST, you wrote:
>And what can we make of the fact that the sum of the units 
>in each of these numbers = 9? eg. 1 728 000 = 
>1+7+2+8=18=1+8=9?  This is true of so many of the "indic" 
>numbers we come across -- the japa mala of 108 beads,etc. 
>Are there any specific references to this number in the 
>ancient literature? Or should we look to the 3?  

Maybe you will find relevant data in the following paper:

Eric Pirart, Le Sacrifice Humain, Reflexions sur la Philosophie religieuse
indo-iranienne ancienne. Journal Asiatique, 284.1 (1996), p. 1-35.

Lars Martin Fosse



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