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402: 39: 226: 485:"If the finding that samples of the same manuscript would be centuries apart is not based on mistakes ... there are still some factors that have evidently been overlooked by the Bodleian research team: the well-known divergence in exposure to cosmic radiation at different altitudes and the possible variation in background radiation due to the presence of certain minerals in exposed, mountainous rock have nowhere been taken into account." 302:, have not been identified precisely. It is probable that most of the rules and examples had been originally composed in Sanskrit, while one of the sections was written entirely in a dialect. It is possible that the manuscript might be a compilation of fragments from different works composed in a number of language varieties. Hayashi admits that some of the irregularities are due to errors by scribes or may be orthographical. 470:
have permitted serious collegial discussion and peer review prior to public announcements. While the excitement inspired by intriguing discoveries benefits our field and scholarly research in general, the confusion generated by broadcasting over-eager and carelessly inferred conclusions, with their inevitable aftermath of caveats and disputes, does not.
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necessary to "take quite seriously the judgement of palaeographists such as Richard Salomon who observed that, what he teleologically called ā€œProto-Śāradā,ā€ ā€œfirst emerged around the middle of the seventh centuryā€ (Salomon 1998: 40). This excludes the earlier dates attributed to manuscript folios on which a fully developed form of Śāradā appears."
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We express regret that the Bodleian Library kept their carbon-dating findings embargoed for many months, and then chose a newspaper press-release and YouTube as media for a first communication of these technical and historical matters. The Library thus bypassed standard academic channels that would
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Prior to the proposed radiocarbon dates of the 2017 study, most scholars agreed that the physical manuscript was a copy of a more ancient text, whose date had to be estimated partly on the basis of its content. HoernlƩ thought that the manuscript was from the 9th century, but the original was from
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The manuscript is a compendium of rules and illustrative examples. Each example is stated as a problem, the solution is described, and it is verified that the problem has been solved. The sample problems are in verse and the commentary is in prose associated with calculations. The problems involve
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To settle the date of the Bakhshali manuscript, language use and especially palaeography are other major parameters to be taken into account. In this context Houben observed: "it is difficult to derive a linear chronological difference from the observed linguistic variation," and therefore it is
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Jan E.M. Houben "Linguistic Paradox and Diglossia: on the emergence of Sanskrit and Sanskritic language in Ancient India." De Gruyter Open Linguistics (Topical Issue on Historical Sociolinguistic Philology, ed. by Chiara Barbati and Christian Gastgeber.) OPLI ā€“ Vol. 4, issue 1: 1ā€“18. DOI:
366:) of the example's numerical information in tabular form, then a computation that works out the example by following the rule step-by-step while quoting it, and finally a verification to confirm that the solution satisfies the problem. This is a style similar to that of 491:
the 3rd or 4th century. Indian scholars assigned it an earlier date. Datta assigned it to the "early centuries of the Christian era". Channabasappa dated it to AD 200ā€“400, on the grounds that it uses mathematical terminology different from that of
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G. R. Kaye, on the other hand, thought in 1927 that the work was composed in the 12th century, but this was discounted in recent scholarship. G. G. Joseph wrote, "It is particularly unfortunate that Kaye is still quoted as an authority on Indian
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The manuscript is a compilation of mathematical rules and examples (in verse), and prose commentaries on these verses. Typically, a rule is given, with one or more examples, where each example is followed by a "statement"
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Plofker, Kim, Agathe Keller, Takao Hayashi, Clemency Montelle, and Dominik Wujastyk. 2017. "The BakhshālÄ« Manuscript: A Response to the Bodleian Libraryā€™s Radiocarbon Datingā€.
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and techniques for a variety of problems, such as systems of linear equations, quadratic equations, arithmetic progressions and arithmetico-geometric series, computing
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The Bakhshali manuscript uses numerals with a place-value system, using a dot as a place holder for zero. The dot symbol came to be called the
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AD 224ā€“383/ 885ā€“993 (proposed carbon-dates, recently disputed on methodological grounds: Plofker et al. 2017, Houben 2018 Ā§3)
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and Dominik Wujastyk to publicly object to the library making the dates globally available, usurping academic precedence:
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Referring to the detailed reconsideration of the evidence by Plofker et al., Sanskrit scholar, Jan Houben remarked:
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Plofker et al., The BakhshālÄ« Manuscript: A Response to the Bodleian Libraryā€™s Radiocarbon Dating, 2017
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Plofker, Kim; Keller, Agathe; Hayashi, Takao; Montelle, Clemency; Wujastyk, Dominik (6 October 2017).
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and whose use as a literary language predated the adoption of Classical Sanskrit for this purposely.(
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The numerals used in the Bakhshali manuscript, dated to sometime between the 3rd and 7th century AD.
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at the University of Oxford (MS. Sansk. d. 14), though folio are periodically loaned to museums.
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Prior to the 2017 carbon dating, a 9th-century inscription of zero on the wall of a temple in
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Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures
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John Newsome Crossley; Anthony Wah-Cheung Lun; Kangshen Shen; Shen Kangsheng (1999).
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The BakhshālÄ« Manuscript: A Response to the Bodleian Libraryā€™s Radiocarbon Dating
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The publication of the radio carbon dates, initially via non-academic media, led
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and neighbouring regions. The language of the manuscript, though intended to be
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All the pages have been photographed which are available in the book by Hayashi
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https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/hssa/index.php/hssa/article/view/22
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etc.), the supposed place where the manuscript might have been written.
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The extant manuscript is incomplete, consisting of seventy leaves of
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The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art: Companion and Commentary
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The Bakhshali Manuscript: An Ancient Treatise of Indian Arithmetic
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The Bakhshālī manuscript: an ancient Indian mathematical treatise
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Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize recipients in Mathematical Science
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Challenges the claims made in the YouTube video "A Big Zero."
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The Crest of the Peacock, non-European roots of Mathematics
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to three different centuries and empires, from AD 224ā€“383 (
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Infinite series expansions for the trigonometric functions
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Sarasvati, Svami Satya Prakash; Jyotishmati, Usha (1979),
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The Bakhshālī manuscripts: a study in medieval mathematics
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Variously described either as an "irregular Sanskrit" (
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to one of the sections states that it was written by a
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Ramanujan Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics
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from a field in 1881, by a peasant in the village of
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Bakhshali manuscript, detail of the numeral "zero".
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Index

Bodleian Library

Bakhshali
Sanskrit
Sharada script
birch bark
Bakhshali
Mardan
Peshawar
Pakistan
Gandhara
Indian mathematics
zero
Sanskrit
British India
Bakhshali
Mardan
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
A. F. R. HoernlƩ
birch bark
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arithmetic
algebra
geometry
mensuration
arithmetic
geometric progressions
simultaneous linear equations
quadratic equations

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