The Positive Sciences of the Ancient Hindus c4.s1.t2.64

c4.s1.t2.64

¹ 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 **वस्रङ्कवसुवत्सरे**, *i.e.* Samvat 898 or 842 a.d. This cannot be Śaka 898, for apart from the decisive use of **वत्सर**, which by this time had come to signify the Samvat era, Váchaspati’s commentator, Udayana, wrote the Lakshanávalí in Śaka 906—