The Bakhshali Manuscript is an Ancient Indian mathematical manuscript written on “birch bark” which was found near the village of Bakhshali in 1881 in what was then the North-West Frontier Province of British India (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, in Pakistan). MS. Sansk. d. 14, fol. 13vBakhshali Manuscript is written in Śāradā script and in Gatha dialect (which is a combination of the ancient Indian languages of Sanskrit and Prakrit). The manuscript is incomplete, with only seventy leaves of birch bark, many of which are mere scraps. Many remain undiscovered. The Bakhshali manuscript, which is currently too fragile to be... sanskritimagazine/history/bakhshali-the-ancient-indian-mathematical-manuscript/ #India #Indians #Hindu #hinduism #AncientIndia #Bakhshali #VedicMath #VedicIndia #Sanskriti #IndianCulture
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