c. 300 A.D. to 450 A.D. Fleet, loc. cit., Vol.
III.

[88] Valhab[=i], c. 600 A.D. _Corpus_, Vol. III.

[89] Bendall's Table of Numerals, in _Cat. Sansk. Budd. MSS._, British
Museum.

[90] _Indian Antiquary_, Vol. XIII, 120; _Epigraphia Indica_, Vol. III, 127
ff.

[91] Fleet, loc. cit.

[92] Bayley, loc. cit., p. 335.

[93] From a copper plate of 493 A.D., found at K[=a]r[=i]tal[=a][=i],
Central India. [Fleet, loc. cit., Plate XVI.] It should be stated, however,
that many of these copper plates, being deeds of property, have forged
dates so as to give the appearance of antiquity of title. On the other
hand, as Colebrooke long ago pointed out, a successful forgery has to
imitate the writing of the period in question, so that it becomes evidence
well worth considering, as shown in Chapter III.

[94] From a copper plate of 510 A.D., found at Majhgaw[=a]in, Central
India. [Fleet, loc. cit., Plate XIV.]

[95] From an inscription of 588 A.D., found at B[=o]dh-Gay[=a], Bengal
Presidency. [Fleet, loc. cit., Plate XXIV.]

[96] From a copper plate of 571 A.D., found at M[=a]liy[=a], Bombay
Presidency. [Fleet, loc. cit., Plate XXIV.]

[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 Egypti