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The Bakhshali Manuscript is a mathematical manuscript written on birch bark which was found near the village of Bakhshali in 1881. It is notable for being "the oldest extant manuscript in Indian mathematics."〔 ==Contents== The Bakhshali manuscript is incomplete, with only seventy leaves of birch bark,〔〔 many of which are mere scraps. Even the intended order of the 70 leaves is indeterminate.〔 It is currently housed in the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford〔〔 (MS. Sansk. d. 14) and is currently too fragile to be examined by scholars. The manuscript is written in an earlier form of Śāradā script, which was mainly in use from the 8th to the 12th century, in the northwestern part of India, such as Kashmir and neighbouring regions.〔 The language is the Gatha dialect (which is a combination of the ancient Indian languages of Sanskrit and Prakrit). A colophon to one of the sections, that says:〔 is preceded by a broken word ''rtikāvati'', which is believed to be the same as the place Mārtikāvata that is mentioned by Varāhamihira.〔 He mentions this place in his ''Bṛhatsaṃhitā'' (16.25) among other locations in northwestern India, such as Takṣaśilā, Gandhāra, etc.〔 Based on this, it is believed that the work of the Bakhshālī manuscript may have been composed in that region.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bakhshali manuscript」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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