History of Hindu Mathematics: A Source Book v1.c7.s10.71

v1.c7.s10.71

In the same manuscript, however, the contrary arrangement is used when the number 54 is expressed as *catuḥ* (4) *pañca* (5).² Jinabhadra Gaṇi (575) has used word symbols with the left to right arrangement to express numbers.³ It seems, therefore, that in the beginning opinion was divided as to which method of arrangement should be followed in the word system.