History of Hindu Mathematics: A Source Book v1.c7.s12.47

v1.c7.s12.47

“And at the time of the rising of the moon with its blackness of night, bowing low, as it were, with folded hands under the guise of closing blue lotuses, immediately the stars shone forth,.......... like zero dots (*śûnya-bindu*), because of the nullity of metempsychosis, scattered in the sky as if on the ink-blue skin rug of the Creator who reckoneth the sum total with a bit of the moon for chalk.”\1