Dear Harry,

In Indian astronomical and mathematical works, a dot over a numeral means that this numeral is considered as negative.

Best,

Jean Michel DELIRE
Lecturer on History of mathematics - IHEB (University of Brussels, ULB)
Lecturer on Science and civilisation of India - Sanskrit Texts - IHEB (ULB)
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Le mar. 2 avr. 2024 à 02:33, Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> a écrit :

Dear list members,
I've attached a pdf of folio 6a of śrīvidyānityapaddhatiḥ by Sahib Kaul. On In that folio there are multiple occurrences of what looks to me like the numeral four with a dot over top.
Can anyone tell me what these are, some kind of repetition symbol?

The entire manuscript can be downloaded from archive.org at:
https://archive.org/download/ShriVidyaNityaPaddhatiOfSahibKaulAlm27Shlf260531673KDevanagariTantra/Shri%20Vidya%20Nitya%20Paddhati%20of%20Sahib%20Kaul_Alm_27_shlf_2_6053_1673_K_Devanagari%20-%20Tantra.pdf
Harry Spier

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