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

[jacob at fabularasa.dk]

Thanks to Royce, Dominik, and Jean Michel for responding to my query. 
The numbering system provided by Dominik would seem to explain the 
symbols in the example provided by Royce: ४५||) would equal 45 rupees 
and 8 annas, and २२|||) would equal 22 rupees and 12 annas. In both 
cases, this is confirmed by the text added after the numerals.

The example provided by myself is still not clear to me, but I will look 
up the sources provided by Dominik and Jean Michel, and see if they can 
help me further along.

Best regards,
Jacob

jmdelire via INDOLOGY skrev den 2017-12-20 09:03:
> 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.
>> 
>> //o///o|o|/o|//o|///o||o||/o||//o||///o|||o|||/o|||//o|||///o1J1/o1//o1///o1|o1|/o1|//o1|///o1||o1||/o1||//o1||///o1|||o1|||/o1|||//o1|||///o2J2/o2//o2///o
>> 
>> ​--
>> 
>> Professor Dominik Wujastyk [2]
>> ​,​
>> Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity
>> ​,​
>> 
>> Department of History and Classics [3]
>> ​,​University of Alberta, Canada
>> ​.​
>> 
>> 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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