Talk:Shikon no Tama

I think that if the legend that inside the shikon jewel the priestess midoriko and the great demon are still battling inside the jewel does that mean that if it's being purified that midoriko is winning the battle but being tainted the great demon is winning?

Number of shards?
If Inuyasha's group only collected 13 shards, and the rest were found by Naraku, how many shards are estimated to have existed? For reference, in episode 21 of the anime, when asked how many shards Naraku holds, Kagome responds with "10... no 20... more than I can count!". The article says "hundreds, if not thousands", which I think is quite a stretch... any thoughts?

Fri0702 (talk) 20:41, August 26, 2015 (UTC)fri0702
 * Certainly, it is inarguable that there were a lot and that most of them were gathered by Naraku. Some of them were quite small in the beginning of the series, but I don't think there would be more than about a hundred or so. Certainly not thousands. 22:23, August 26, 2015 (UTC)