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[N.S.] 
The Hindus themselves never claimed to have invented the 
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device of places to make them suffice for all numbers 
ascribed to the beneficent Creator of the Universe in Bhashara’s 
Vasana and in Krishna’s commentary on the Vijaganita.' 
Neither did they claim originality in mathematics. Bhaskara 
often speaks with disdain of Hindu mathematicians and refers 
to certain ‘ ancient teachers’ as authorities. If these ancient 
teachers had been Hindus he would most probably have men- 
tioned them by name 
Hindu mathematicians. Personally I prefer to accep 
Hindu works as really representative and to reject the Western 
evidence where it does not agree with the orthodox Hindu 
exposition. 
1 Colebrooke, p. 4. 
