Symbolic significance of numbers in eastern classical literature

Since ancient times, the number has been serving as a means of describing the world order and orientation of a human in it. They attributed the hidden meaning and magical ability to influence on everything. Numbers were considered as integral characteristics of all creatures and objects: they controlled not only physical harmony and the laws of life, space and time, but relationship with God, which was understood as World Unity, the Highest Truth. Numbers were interpreted as divine symbols of the universe, the basic ideas about the universe, a symbol of harmony and order as opposed to Chaos. Cognition of the number has played a great significance in the practical activities of people, because "... without a number, not only any science, but also any relation to life is unthinkable. The number gives not only a measure of things, but also a simple connection of phenomena, and here language is inevitably associated with the number in the development of human thinking from diffuse-objective attempts of primitive man up to the modern understanding of number and numbers, in all mathematical and philosophical diversity of numerical possibilities.