Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c6.s4.21

c6.s4.21

² Misreading would be an obvious solution, if we could assume that at the time of the composition of the *Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa* the system of numeral notation based on ‘the value of position’ was already known. With the older system of notation by means of distinct signs for the tens and for the units, the theory of misreading is far less intelligible. It must, then, be a case of false recollection.