puzzle, JMO

There are three temples and one pond before each temple. One person carries some flowers and dips it in the first pond. Number of flowers become 100 times. He then offers some flowers in the first temple.He goes with the balance to second pond and takes a dip. Again the number of flowers increases by 100 times. He offers the same number of flowers at second temple and leaves with the balance  flowers to the third pond. There after the dip the number of flowers increase by 100 times. He offers same number of flowers at temple 3 and nothing remains with him afterwards. So how many flowers did he have in the beginning.




Answer:
starts with flower = 10101
the number of flowers he gives to each temple = 1000,000