Indian Epigraphical Glossary c6.237

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c6.237

akṣarapalli (IA 11), the system of writing numbers by syllables; name applied to the system of writing numbers as found in inscriptions before the popularisation of the decimal system, though the symbols employed in the Brāhmī inscriptions do not appear to be akṣaras in all cases.

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