Indian Palaeography from about B.C. 350 to about A.D. 1300 c9.s1.16

c9.s1.16

For the Kharoṣṭhī 100, Euting's table offers no corresponding Aramaic sign, and that given in his edition of the Saqqārah inscription³ is, as he informs me, not certain. Hence, there remain only the Phoenician symbols 𐤕, 𐤐, which are suitable for comparison. But the close relationship of Phoenician and Aramaic writing makes it not improbable that the latter, too, possessed in earlier times a 100, standing upright. The Kharoṣṭhī practice of prefixing the signs for 1 and 2 to the 100 is found in all the Semitic systems of numeral notation.