A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v2.c34.178

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∗ This conclusively proves that the decimal notation was familiar to the Hindus when the Vyása-Bháshya was written, i.e. centuries before the first appearance of the notation in the writings of the Arabs or the Greco-Syrian intermediaries. Váchaspati, who comments on the Vyása-Bháshya, composed his Nyáya-Súchí-Nibandha in वस्वङ्कवसुवत्सरे i.e. Samvat 898 or 842 A. D. This cannot be S'aka 898, for apart from the decisive use of वत्सरे, which by this time had come to signify the Samvat era, Váchaspati's commentator, Udayana, wrote the Lakshanávalí in S'aka 906—