Bakhshali manuscript

The Bakhshali Manuscript is a mathematical manuscript written on birch bark. It was found in 1881 near the village of Bakhshali in what was then the North-West Frontier Province of British India (now Pakistan). Most of the manuscript is missing, only seventy leaves of birch bark remain.

No-one knows how old it is and different scholars have come up with different dates. Most scholars agree that the manuscript is a copy of a more ancient text.

Bakhshali Manuscript Media

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  The numerals used in the Bakhshali manuscript, dated to sometime between the 3rd and 7th century AD.

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  Bakhshali manuscript, detail of the numeral "zero".

Other websites

• The Bakhshali manuscript
• 6 – The Bakhshali manuscript Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine