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

[jmdelire]

Dear Jacob and Dominik,

There is a better source than Ifrah, it is Geneviève Guitel, Histoire 
comparée des numérations écrites, Flammarion, Paris, 1975. On p.623, she 
presents, refering to Filliozat, exactly the same table as below with 
the title Ecriture des nombres de 1 à 32 dans la numération de la 
roupie. Then, until p.628, she explains it and compare to other 
numeration systems. May I ask you a copy of the original document Jacob 
has apparently joined ? I am also interested by the gyan bazi.

Jean Michel Delire,
Lecturer on Science and Civilization of India - Sanskrit Texts
and on History of Mathematics at the University of Brussels


Le 20.12.2017 03:19, Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY a écrit :
> 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.
> 
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> 
> Professor Dominik Wujastyk [2]
> ​,​
> Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity
> ​,​
> 
> Department of History and Classics [3]
> ​,​University of Alberta, Canada
> ​.​
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> South Asia at the U of A:
>  ​sas.ualberta.ca​ [4]
> ​​
> 
> 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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