From: Dipak Bhattacharya <dbhattacharya200498@yahoo.com>
To: Artur Karp <karp@UW.EDU.PL>; "INDOLOGY@liverpool.ac.uk" <INDOLOGY@liverpool.ac.uk>
Sent: Thursday, 2 February 2012 11:26 PM
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Terms for Negation ?

Perhaps you might try St. Petersburg with hara. It will be time consuming. There should be other terms like ṇa that I do not remember immediately. These terms are taught in primary class arithmetic meaning denominator and minus. alābha  and  anuccheda mean no profit and no loss respectively.
There is a paper in Sanskrit ’Vārtāśāstrīya kiñcit’   by Vibhūti Bhūṣaṇa Bhaṭṭācārya on the accounting system and market management in Kauilya’s Arthaśāstra published in the Sārasavatī suamā VS 2006 and 2007. The concepts come into discussion. One may disagree on some points but the paper is informative and innovative. But I read it in the seventies and cannot accurately tell everything.
Best
DB
Best
DB


From: Artur Karp <karp@UW.EDU.PL>
To: INDOLOGY@liverpool.ac.uk
Sent: Thursday, 2 February 2012 10:06 PM
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Terms for Negation ?

Dear List, 

A bit tangentially: what is the Sanskrit term for 'liability' (minus-value)? 

Could philosophical interest in the idea of "negated reality" ('zero-value', 'lack of existence', 'emptiness') mirror in any way the development of accounting methods and techniques?

Regards, 


Artur Karp

Senior Lecturer in Sanskrit and Pali (ret.)
South Asian Studies Dept.
University of Warsaw
Poland