[97] From a Bijayaga[d.]h pillar inscription of 372 A.D. [Fleet, loc. cit., Plate XXXVI, C.] [98] From a copper plate of 434 A.D. [_Indian Antiquary_, Vol. I, p. 60.] [99] Gadhwa inscription, c. 417 A.D. [Fleet, loc. cit., Plate IV, D.] [100] K[=a]r[=i]tal[=a][=i] plate of 493 A.D., referred to above. [101] It seems evident that the Chinese four, curiously enough called "eight in the mouth," is only a cursive [4 vertical strokes]. [102] Chalfont, F. H., _Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum_, Vol. IV, no. 1; J. Hager, _An Explanation of the Elementary Characters of the Chinese_, London, 1801. [103] H. V. Hilprecht, _Mathematical, Metrological and Chronological Tablets from the Temple Library at Nippur_, Vol. XX, part I, of Series A, Cuneiform Texts Published by the Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania, 1906; A. Eisenlohr, _Ein altbabylonischer Felderplan_, Leipzig, 1906; Maspero, _Dawn of Civilization_, p. 773. [104] Sir H. H. Howard, "On the Earliest Inscriptions from Chaldea," _Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology_, XXI, p. 301, London, 1899. [105] For a bibliography of the principal hypotheses of this nature see Buehler, loc. cit., p. 77. Buehler (p. 78) feels that of all these hypotheses that which connects the Br[=a]hm[=i] with the Egyptian numerals is the most plausible, although he does not adduce any convincing proof. Th. Henri Martin, "Les signes numeraux et l'arithmetique chez les peuples de l'antiquite et du moyen age" (being an examination of Cantor's _Mathematische Beitraege zum Culturleben der Voelker_), _Annali di matematica pura ed applicata_, Vol. V, Rome, 1864, pp. 8, 70. Also, same author, "Recherches nouvelles sur l'origine de notre systeme de numeration ecrite," _Revue Archeologique_, 1857, pp. 36, 55. See also the tables given later in this work. [106] _Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Bombay Branch_, Vol. XXIII. [107] Loc. cit., reprint, Part I, pp. 12, 17. Bayley's deductions are generally regarded as unwarranted. [108] _The Alphabet_; London, 1883, Vol. II, pp. 265, 266, and _The Academy_ of Jan. 28, 1882. [109] Taylor, _The Alphabet_, loc. cit., table on p. 266. [110] Buehler, _On the Origin of the Indian Br[=a]hma Alphabet_, Strassburg, 1898, footnote, pp. 52, 53.