The Hindu-Arabic Numerals c9.82

c9.82

The Hindus also learned the art of coining from the Greeks, or possibly from the Chinese, and the stores of Greco-Hindu coins still found in northern India are a constant source of historical information.² The Rāmāyana speaks of merchants traveling in great caravans and embarking by sea for foreign lands.³ Ceylon traded with Malacca and Siam, and Java was colonized by Hindu traders, so that mercantile knowledge was being spread about the Indies during all the formative period of the numerals.