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 harnessed to the yoke. They have to do a journey of 70 yojanas. How many times are they unyoked and how many times yoked in four? Answer—Every 10 yojanas, and each horse travels 40 yojanas. 10. If a female slave sixteen years of age brings thirty- two, what will one twenty cost? Answer—$\scriptstyle{25\frac{3}{5}}$.|undefined 11. Three hundred gold coins form the price of 9 damsels of 10 years. What is the price of 36 damsels of 16 years? Answer—750. 12. The price of a hundred bricks, of which the length, thickness and breadth respectively are 16, 8 and 10, is settled at six dīnāras, we have received 100,000 of other bricks a quarter less in every dimension. Say, what we ought to pay? Answer—$\scriptstyle{2531\frac{1}{4}}$.|undefined 13. Two elephants, which are ten in length, nine in breadth, thirty-six in girth and seven in height, consume one droņa of grain. How much will be the rations of ten other elephants which are a quarter more in height and other dimensions? Answer—12 droņas, 3 prasthas, $$\scriptstyle{1\frac{1}{2}}$$ kudavas. (64 kudavas=16 prasthas=1 droņa). 14. One bestows alms on holy men in the third part of a day, another gives the same in half a day and a third distributes three in five days. In what time, keeping to these rates, will they have given a hundred? Answer—$\scriptstyle{17\frac{6}{7}}$.|undefined L=the Līlāvatī, V=Vīja Gaņita, both by Bhāskara, M=Mahāvīra, S=SrīdharaŚrīdhara [sic], C=Chaturveda.