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THE 
BAKHSHALI MANUSCRIPT 
AN ANCIENT TREATISE OF INDIAN ARITHME[TIC] 
 
 
EDITED BY 
Svami Satya Prakash SarasvatI 
and 
Dr. Usha Jyotishmati, M. Sc., D. Phil. 
 
 
PUBLISHED BY 
Dr. Ratn Kumari Svadhyaya Sansthana 
Vijnana Parishad Buildings 
Maharshi Dayanand Marg 
Allahabad-211002 
Phone : 54413 
 
 
FIRST EDITION 
1979 
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=Contents of the Manuscript=
The portions of the manuscript that have been preserved are
wholly concerned with mathematics. Dr. Hoernle described the
work in 1888 in the following words :-

"The beginning and end of the manuscript being lost, both the
name of the work and its author are unknown. The subject of the
Contents of the Manuscript 4)
work, however, is arithmetic. It contains it great variety of lun
hlems relating to daily life. The following are examples :

(i) in a carriage, instead of 10 horses, there are yoked …the
distance traversed by the former was one hundred; how much will
the other horses be able to accomplish" ?

(ii) The following is more complicated :- 'A certain
travels 5 yojanas on the first day, and 3 more on each succerding
day ; another who travels 7 yojanas on each day, has it start of 5
days ; in what time will they meet ?'

(iii) The following is still more complicated :--'Of 3 merehnnln,
the first possesses 7 horses, the second 9 ponies, the third 10
each of them gives away 3 animals to be equally distributed among
themselves. The result is that the value of their respective
properties become equal : how much was the value of each animal ?

"The method prescribed in the rules for the solution of these
problems is extremely mechanical and reduces the labour of thinking
to a minimum".

The following is a summary list of the contents of the work as
far as its present state allows of such analysis :-

Problems involving systems of linear equations

Indeterminate equations of the second degree

Arithmetical progressions

Quadratic equations

Approximate evaluations of square-roots C

Complex series

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The computation of the fineness of gold

Problems of income and expenditure, and profit and loss

Miscellaneous problems

Mensuration

Such is a very rough outline of the work as it now stands.

Perhaps the most interesting sections are C, A and M; and of
these C is the most complete and was evidently treated as of cosiderable
importance. Section A is also of special interest as it contains
examples which may be described as of the epanthcm type. Section
M is of interest principally on account of the methods of expressing
the numerous measures involved and also because of its literary and
social references.

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 proceedings of the Conference, and also with some additions, in the  '' Indian Antiquary '' of 1888. In 1902 Dr. Hoernle presented the manuscript to the Bodleian Library.
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 The Bakhshali text is written in the Sarada script,
 which flourished on the north-west borders of India from about the
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 e, while section F is, in this matter, very much like section L. Section C has no example of either the JIHVAMULIYA or
 UPADHMANIYA, and so on; but it must be
 borne in mind that these statistics are only of value in the mass.
 =The Language =
 The language of the text may be described as an irregular

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