The Hindu-Arabic Numerals c6.43

c6.43

¹ The earliest work on the subject was by James Prinsep, "On the Inscriptions of Piyadasi or Aśoka," etc., *Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal*, 1838, following a preliminary suggestion in the same journal in 1837. See also "Aśoka Notes," by V. A. Smith, *The Indian Antiquary*, Vol. XXXVII, 1908, p. 24 seq., Vol. XXXVIII, pp. 151–159, June, 1909; *The Early History of India*, 2d ed., Oxford, 1908, p. 154; J. F. Fleet, "The Last Words of Aśoka," *Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society*, October, 1909, pp. 981–1016; E. Senart, *Les inscriptions de Piyadasi*, 2 vols., Paris, 1887.