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

[Richard G Salomon]

Also better than Ifrah is Stephen Chrisomalis, Numerical Notation: A 
Comparative History (Cambridge 2010).

Rich Salomon


On 12/20/2017 12:03 AM, jmdelire via INDOLOGY wrote:
> 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:
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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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