crazy crazy word problem

[celebrityrose000]

Out of a swarm of bees one fifth part settled on a Kadamba blossom; one third on a Silihindra flower; three times the difference of those numbers flew to the bloom of a Kutaja. One bee, which remained, hovered about the air. Tell me, charming woman, the number of bees ?

This is seriously the problem....

I know that I should make the number of bees be the variable X.....and that somehow I am suppose to convert this into an equation but i cant seem to do it. How to I make this an equation?

 

[Denis]

b = bees
b - (1/5)b - (1/3)b - 3[(1/3) - (1/5)]b = 1

Solve for b.

 

[Deleted member 4993]

Out of a swarm of bees one fifth part settled on a Kadamba blossom; one third on a Silihindra flower; three times the difference of those numbers flew to the bloom of a Kutaja. One bee, which remained, hovered about the air. Tell me, charming woman, the number of bees ?

This is seriously the problem....

I know that I should make the number of bees be the variable X.....and that somehow I am suppose to convert this into an equation but i cant seem to do it. How to I make this an equation?

These are Vedic problem.

About thousand years (2 thousand ??) ago Hindu mathematicians spoke in these "mystic" ways and solved (and created) these bewildering problems.