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

[Dominik Wujastyk]

Chrisomalis is excellent; I didn't know it.  Thank you, Richard!

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On 20 December 2017 at 15:21, Richard G Salomon via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> 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|||o
>>> 1|||/o1|||//o1|||///o2J2/o2//o2///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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