1855.1 Ancient Indian Numerals. 567 



3rd. Dr. Stevenson assigns the value of thirty to a cipher formed 

 like an e reversed and which differs but little, from the Karnath and 

 Telinga figure 3.* It is possible that under the same heading 

 will have to be entered, the symbol identical with the Tibetan one, 

 shaped as the *t a of the Bactrian character, which has been placed 

 by Prinsep first in his list. 



So also perhaps will "Wathen's figure (J. A. S. B. IY. 477) have 

 to be referred *to this association, unless indeed, it is preferred to 

 look upon it as an imperfectly formed 6. 



4th. The forty, fifty, sixty and seventy are purely conjectural 

 assignments ; still, there exist some imperfect hints for their relative 

 arrangement. 



The figure fashioned like a Gupta ^3" seems to come first in order ; 

 the sign occurs on the coins of Dama Sah and of his son Dama jata 

 Sriyah.f It has not as far as I am aware of, b^en met with in Bock 

 inscriptions on copper-plates. 



Next I would place the sign formed like a narrowed "$, which is 

 found so frequently on the money of Vijaya Sah son of Dama Sah. J 

 This symbol has not been detected in inscriptions, while the 

 ^T which constitutes the next figure in serial order appears only, 

 as a solitary example, in the Huriswamini inscription at Sanchi.§ 

 The fact of the ^T never having been discovered among the copious 

 coin dates may well give rise to a question as to whether the normal 

 sign may not affect a different form as a numismatic figure. 



Por the definition seventy, I am greatly inclined to claim the 

 appropriate representative ^f to which Prinsep desired to attribute 

 the function of the initial of seven (sapta). 



It is necessary that this cipher should come in late among the 

 numbers under eighty, as the Giizrat dated plates instruct us that 

 we have to insert " six successions to the Gadi" between the date of 

 the No. 1 Valabhi grant, || the decimal of which is the 30 above 

 referred to — and the 3rd Valabhi grant,^[ which enters the ^f after 

 the identical 300 of the earlier document. 



* Pp.— J. A. S. B. VII. PI. XX, f J. R. A. S. XII. 53, 54. 



% J. R. A. S. XII. 54. § J. A. S. B. VI. PI. XXVL 



II J. A. S. B. IV. 481. H J. A, S. B. VII. 96G. 



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