The Bakhshali manuscript

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Author(s): Svami Satya Prakash Saravati, Usha Jyotishmati
Publisher: Arvind printers
Year: 1979

Language: English

Table Of Contents
Introduction
Chajakputra, the scribe
How the text was found
The manuscript
The script
The language
Order & arrangement of folios
Contents of the manuscript
Generalized arithmetic & algebra
Text is of Indian form
Is the work homogeneous?
The script (details)
An indigenous Hindu treatise
Various opinions about its age
Bakhshali manuscript older than the present manuscript
Bakhshali work, a commentary
Present manuscript, a copy
Exposition & method
Fundamental operations
Square roots and surds
Rule of three
Calculation of errors & process of reconciliation
Negative sign
Least common multiple
Arithmetical notation
Regula falsi
Known still earlier in India
The rupona method
Proofs
Solutions
Symbols for the unknown
Plan of writing equations
Certain complex series
Systems of linear equations
Quadratic indeterminate equations
Happy collaboration of the East & West
Appendix: Weights & measures
The Bakhshali Text (Transliterated in Devanagari Script)
Index