[INDOLOGY] Price tag on 19th-cent. print

[Dominik Wujastyk]

I have seen the following base-16 counting system in Bengali books, usually
as the numbering of the prefatory matter.  I've never seen any
secondary-source discussion of this.  One place to check might be Ifrah's
Universal History of Numbers;  Ifrah is wonderful in many ways, but is to
be used with caution in academic contexts.

//o///o|o|/o|//o|///o||o||/o||//o||///o|||o|||/o|||//o|||///o1J1/o1//o1///o
1|o1|/o1|//o1|///o1||o1||/o1||//o1||///o1|||o1|||/o1|||//o1|||///o2J2/o2//o
2///o

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On 15 December 2017 at 13:38, Jacob Schmidt-Madsen via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> I have attached what appears to be a price tag at the bottom of a gyān
> bāzī chart printed in Mumbai in 1894 CE. If anyone knows how to read it, I
> would be most grateful.
>
> Best,
> Jacob
>
> Jacob Schmidt-Madsen
> PhD Fellow (Indology)
> Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies
> University of Copenhagen
> Denmark
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