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Numbers from the Gandharan north-west.
Also known as: Gandhari numerals
The numeral signs of the Kharoṣṭhī script used in Gandhāra and along the Silk Road.
Write numbers in Kharoṣṭhī documents and inscriptions.
Contexts: Mathematics, History
Runs right to left, unlike every other numeral system in this batch, because Kharoṣṭhī itself does — the script was written under Aramaic influence in the Achaemenid north-west.
Contexts: Mathematics, History
Uses an additive four-sign as a base element, giving a partly quaternary structure absent from Brāhmī: two Indian scripts of the same period counting differently.
Contexts: Mathematics, History
Vertical strokes for the small units combined with distinct signs for four, ten, twenty and a hundred, written right to left with the script.