The Bakhshālī Manuscript : An Ancient Indian Mathematical Treatise /

The Bakhshālī Manuscript : An Ancient Indian Mathematical Treatise /

The Bakhshālī Manuscript is an old birch-bark manuscript which treats mathematics in Sanskrit. It was unearthed by a farmer in AD 1881 at the small village of Bakhshālī, about eighty kilometers north-east of Peshawar, one of the important trading centers of the ancient Gandhāra district (now Pakista...

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Main Author: Hayashi, Takao (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 1995.

Series: Asian Studies - Book Archive pre-2000
Groningen Oriental Studies ; 11.

Subjects:

Hindu mathematics > Early works to 1800.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit > England > Oxford.
Mathematics, Medieval.

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Call Number: QA27.I4

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Preliminary Material /
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  • Preface /
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  • Acknowledgements for the original dissertation /
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  • List of Tables /
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  • List of Figures /
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  • Chapter 1 Description and Historiography /
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  • Chapter 2 Size and Order of the Leaves /
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  • Chapter 3 Script /
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  • Chapter 4 Linguistic Peculiarities /
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  • Chapter 5 Meter /
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  • Chapter 6 Special Terminology /
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  • Chapter 7 Style of Exposition /
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  • Chapter 8 Abbreviations and Symbols /
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  • Chapter 9 Numerical Expressions /
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  • Chapter 10 Classifications of the Rules /
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  • Chapter 11 Root-Approximation Formulas /
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  • Chapter 12 Weights and Measures /
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  • Chapter 13 Sources of the Bakhshālī Manuscript /
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  • Chapter 14 Date and Place of Composition /
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  • Part II Sanskrit Text /
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  • Part III Translation /
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  • Chapter 15 Numbered Sūtras /
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  • Chapter 2 Unidentified Sūtras /
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  • Chapter 3 Conjectured Sūtras /
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  • Chapter 4 Quoted Sūtras /
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  • Back Matter
  • Appendix A List of Sūtras /
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  • Appendix B Concordance of Rules and Examples /
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  • Appendix C Numerical Data /
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  • Appendix D Terms for the Fundamental Operations /
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  • Appendix E Proper Names /
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  • Appendix F Addressees in Examples /
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  • Appendix G Patan Manuscript HJJM 8894 /
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  • Appendix H Bibliography /
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  • Appendix I Glossary-Index of Sanskrit Words /
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  • Appendix J Abbreviations /
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  • Appendix K Photographs of the Bakhshālī Manuscript /
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