File:Lokavibhaga Jain Manuscript.jpg

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English: Folio from a Kalpasutra (Book of Sacred Precepts). The Lokavibhaga is a 5th century Jain text originally composed in Prakrit with surviving Sanskrit version.

It contains the oldest known mention of numeral "0" with decimal system.

The discovery of manuscript was in a report by Archaeological Department of Mysore in 1909-10
Date 15th century
date QS:P,+1450-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
Source http://www.pinsdaddy.com/jainism-holy-text_kn9bkes2jBhZPqHbYhNM7DrGHNP*aqKf4SJGPHWTlgU/
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