[98] From a copper plate of 434 A.D. [Indian Antiquary, Vol. I, p. 60.]
[99] Gadhwa inscription, c. 417 A.D. [Fleet, loc. cit., Plate IV, D.]
[100] Kārītalāī plate of 493 A.D., referred to above.
[101] It seems evident that the Chinese four, curiously enough called "eight in the mouth," is only a cursive
[102] Chalfont, F. H., Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum, Vol. IV, no. 1; J. Hager, An Explanation of the Elementary Characters of the Chinese, London, 1801.
[103] H. V. Hilprecht, Mathematical, Metrological and Chronological Tablets from the Temple Library at Nippur, Vol. XX, part I, of Series A, Cuneiform Texts Published by the Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania, 1906; A. Eisenlohr, Ein altbabylonischer Felderplan, Leipzig, 1906; Maspero, Dawn of Civilization, p. 773.
[104] Sir H. H. Howard, "On the Earliest Inscriptions from Chaldea," Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archæology, XXI, p. 301, London, 1899.
[105] For a bibliography of the principal hypotheses of this nature see Bühler, loc. cit., p. 77. Bühler (p. 78) feels that of all these hypotheses that which connects the Brāhmī with the Egyptian numerals is the most plausible, although he does not adduce any convincing proof. Th. Henri Martin, "Les signes numéraux et l'arithmétique chez les peuples de l'antiquité et du moyen âge" (being an examination of Cantor's Mathematische Beiträge zum Culturleben der Völker), Annali di matematica pura ed applicata, Vol. V, Rome, 1864, pp. 8, 70. Also, same author, "Recherches nouvelles sur l'origine de notre système de numération écrite," Revue Archéologique, 1857, pp. 36, 55. See also the tables given later in this work.
[106] Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Bombay Branch, Vol. XXIII.