Dear Harry, In Indian astronomical and mathematical works, a dot over a numeral means that this numeral is considered as negative.
Best, *Jean Michel DELIRE* *Lecturer on History of mathematics - IHEB (University of Brussels, ULB)* *Lecturer on **Science and civilisation of India - Sanskrit Texts - IHEB (ULB)* *Member of the Centre National d'Histoire des Sciences (KBR, Bruxelles)* *Member of the Société Asiatique (Paris)* *Member of the International Association of Sanskrit Studies* Le mar. 2 avr. 2024 à 02:33, Harry Spier via INDOLOGY < [email protected]> a écrit : > Dear list members, > I've attached a pdf of folio 6a of śrīvidyānityapaddhatiḥ by Sahib Kaul. > On In that folio there are multiple occurrences of what looks to me like > the numeral four with a dot over top. > Can anyone tell me what these are, some kind of repetition symbol? > > The entire manuscript can be downloaded from archive.org at: > > https://archive.org/download/ShriVidyaNityaPaddhatiOfSahibKaulAlm27Shlf260531673KDevanagariTantra/Shri%20Vidya%20Nitya%20Paddhati%20of%20Sahib%20Kaul_Alm_27_shlf_2_6053_1673_K_Devanagari%20-%20Tantra.pdf > Harry Spier > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >
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