Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c6.s5.t2.27
Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c6.s5.t2.27
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c6.s5.t2.27
In MSS. one often finds an abridged way of writing numbers, *e. g.* 20 || 1 || 2 etc. for 20; 21; 22 etc. And this has been suspected with reason to exist in some inscriptions. It was done (according to Albīrūnī) in reckoning by the ‘Lokakāla’.