Bakhshali Manuscript, folio 16

  • Language: Sanskrit
  • Date: 901-1032
  • Indoskript editor: Camillo Formigatti
  • Dynasty:
  • ID: 914
  • Place of origin: Bakhshali (72° 3' long., 34° 10' lat.)
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Scriptlate Proto-Sharada
LanguageSanskrit
Materialbirch bark
Lines9 (reconstructed)
Dating901–1032
Basis of datingRadiocarbon dating (calibrated age, 95.4% confidence interval / cal AD)
OriginBakhshali, village near Mardan, Pakistan
Current locationBodleian Libraries, University of Oxford (MS. Sansk. d. 14)

Edition(s):

Hayashi, Takao. The Bakhshālī Manuscript: An Ancient Indian Mathematical Treatise. 1st ed. Leiden; Brill, 1995.

Kaye, George Rusby, A. F. Rudolf Hoernle, and Bodleian Library. The Bakhshālī Manuscript: A Study in Mediæval Mathematics. Calcutta: Government of India Central Publication Branch, 1928.

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Historical persons

  • Chajaka (compiler of the work or scribe)
  • Hasika (patron)

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