History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.76

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⁶⁹⁷ Vide 'Arabic thought and its place in world History' by De Lacy O Leary (London, 1922) pp. 108-109 for an Indian bringing to Baghdad a treatise on Arithmetic and Astronomy and for the introduction of Indian numerals and their being passed on as Arabic numerals, also 'a history of Elementary Mathematics' by Dr. Cajori (pp 11-13) for the discovery of the principle of position by the Hindus, the invention and adoption of the zero and for the introduction of the Hindu notation in Europe in the 12th century by the Arabs. Vide Journal of Near Eastern Studies, vol IX p. 119 for the statement that '*Sindhind*' (i. e Siddhānta) was translated into Arabic in the reign of Mansur (754-775 A D.)