Baksha Manuscript

The earliest history of writing in India was in the Vedic period. There are few references for Indian mathematics from the second century BC to the third century AD. The Baksha manuscript excavated in 1881 is a testimony to this period. These manuscripts written on birch bark recorded rich mathematical content, involving fractions, square roots, number sequences, calculations of income and expenditure and profit, calculations of proportions, sum of series, algebraic equations, etc. It is particularly worth noting that the manuscript appears full decimal digits, in which a dot "." is used to represent "0".