[126] Alphabetum Barmanum, Romae, MDCCLXXVI, p. 50. The 1 is evidently Sanskrit, and the 4, 7, and possibly 9 are from India.
[127] Alphabetum Grandonico-Malabaricum, Romae, MDCCLXXII, p. 90. The zero is not used, but the symbols for 10, 100, and so on, are joined to the units to make the higher numbers.
[128] Alphabetum Tangutanum, Romae, MDCCLXXIII, p. 107. In a Tibetan MS. in the library of Professor Smith, probably of the eighteenth century, substantially these forms are given.
[129] Bayley, loc. cit., plate II. Similar forms to these here shown, and numerous other forms found in India, as well as those of other oriental countries, are given by A. P. Pihan, Exposé des signes de numération usités chez les peuples orientaux anciens et modernes, Paris, 1860.
[130] Bühler, loc. cit., p. 80; J. F. Fleet, Corpus inscriptionum Indicarum, Vol. III, Calcutta, 1888. Lists of such words are given also by Al-Bīrūnī in his work India; by Burnell, loc. cit.; by E. Jacquet, "Mode d'expression symbolique des nombres employé par les Indiens, les Tibétains et les Javanais," Journal Asiatique, Vol. XVI, Paris, 1835.
[131] This date is given by Fleet, loc. cit., Vol. III, p. 73, as the earliest epigraphical instance of this usage in India proper.
[132] Weber, Indische Studien, Vol. VIII, p. 166 seq.
[133] Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. I (N.S.), p. 407.
[134] VIII, 20, 21.
[135] Th. H. Martin, Les signes numéraux ..., Rome, 1864; Lassen, Indische Alterthumskunde, Vol. II, 2d ed., Leipzig and London, 1874, p. 1153.