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32. The Use of the Abacus in Ancient India. 
By G. R. Kaye, Bureau of Education, Simla. 
It has frequently been stated that the abacus was in com- 
mon use in ancient times in India, and upon this supposed fact 
appears that these statements, although made by undoubted 
scholars, are not well authenticated ; and it is proposed in this note 
brie he examine them. 
- Clive Bayley pean “Tt need hardly be said that the 
"use of the abacus is still common in every village bazar in 
Rode! writes: “En voyant usage du ‘tableau a colonnes’ 
répandu surtout en Perse et particuliérement dans la Khorasan, 
4 a : . 
by means of the abacus, while the works of the learned Woepcke 
are largely concerned with the development of the science of 
re sur 
Oceident and Sur l’introduetion rithms Millions on en 
Oceident, etc.). 
- Burn 
spac ‘hus ee : 
Kata Sankalita, p- 334) me ntions a coun ter seers i iespher, ler, 
ave never found this to be done (South Indian Paleo- 
sap, p. 62). 

1 This is by no means true, 
