What is Bakhshali manuscript?
The '''Bakhshali Manuscript''' is a [[Mathematics|mathematical]] [[manuscript]] written on [[birch bark]]. It was found in 1881 near the [[village]] of [[Bakhshali]] in what was then the [[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa|North-West Frontier Province]] of [[British India]] (now [[Pakistan]]). Most of the manuscript is missing, only 70 [[leaf|leaves]] of birch bark remain.<ref>[http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Bakhshali_manuscript.html The Bakhshali manuscript]</ref> Nobody knows how old it is and different [[scholar]]s have come up with different dates. Most scholars agree that the manuscript is a copy of a more [[Ancient history|ancient]] text. ==References== <references/> ==Other websites== *[http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Bakhshali_manuscript.html The Bakhshali manuscript] *[http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Miscellaneous/Pearce/Lectures/Ch6.html 6 – The Bakhshali manuscript] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718062054/http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Miscellaneous/Pearce/Lectures/Ch6.html |date=2011-07-18 }} {{math-stub}} [[Category:Manuscripts]]