Dear Mofid, Thanks for your comment.
1. If you had taken the trouble of going through the contents of the blog of Ankur with a bit more attention then you would have come across that I got the confirmation of this discovery in the doctorate thesis of Prof. Dr. H. N. Dutta former Director of Assam Archaeological Society. 2. This is not the result of figment of imagination of a picnic party. I am afraid there may not be many in Assam (read India) who has the knowledge of the ancient scripts to read the epigraphical inscriptions. For your information I thanks to Manjil (Gonit Sora) I came in contact with a specialist and got the inscription reconfirmed. 3. As for your request about extra information of the dating system, pls check the following link: https://elearning2.uniroma1.it/pluginfile.php/397220/mod_resource/content/1/Dating%20methods.pdf Here is a link to annual list of active radiocarbon laboratories <https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/radiocarbon/article/download/17780/17496> (in case you need more information). 4. On this issue next month we are organising a Boot camp (seminar plus workshop) in New Delhi. Pls find attached the information. If it is of interest and you would like to attend the seminar you may contact our coordinator. If you know of others who might be interested in the Boot camp and would be in a position contribute to the discussion, please let me know. 5. On a different note, picking up the thread of our past discussions (started some 10 years back) regarding increasing the Unicode contents of Assamese in Internet, (ব) and (ৱ) letters were included in the Nagajari-Khanikargaon rock inscription of 5th-century <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagajari-Khanikargaon_rock_inscription> . "A note on some Archaeological Relics in an around Barpathar (Golaghat) Assam: An Appraisal" - Dr. P.C. Saikia, page 32 mentions: The experts amongst us might be able to present a more detailed picture of Assamese alphabets already in use some 1500 years ago and it is not a subset of Bengali. Greetings, Wahid da From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: dinsdag 7 februari 2017 2:07 To: Ankur Bora Cc: North East; Friendsof Assam NE; Yahoo! Inc.; Wahid Saleh - Indiawijzer; Assamnet; Support A. Child Subject: [SupportAChild-Assam] Re: [NorthEastIndia] Searching for the First Zero Dear Ankur da, thanks a lot for bringing our attention to this discovery which could showcase the intelligence of Kamrupi civilization to rest of the world.However it would be a lenghty process as rightly pointed by Saleh Sir that the discovery of each first zero brings the possibility of a previous inscription to discover.Please keep us updated on the developments in this regard. I hope the archeological society and tourism department will provide needful intervention towards showcasing the discovered treasure in Golaghat as a place of historical and archeological importance. I am also interested to know how the dating of a discovered item is carried out to pinpoint the age of any old item discovered anywhere at any point of time.to be frank here, a first look at the inscription brought me the curiosity whether it is just a inscription of any picnic guy who had visited the place on 23rd December in 19 or 18 or even earlier 78th year and tried to mark his date of visit.the process of ascertaining the age of an newly discovered item is not known to all which should actually be made known to a larger crowd to ensure that it becomes popular and more people are made aware of it. I shall be following the updates on this regard. with thanks, Mofid, Hyderabad. On Feb 3, 2017 06:38, "Ankur Bora [email protected] [NorthEastIndia]" <[email protected]> wrote: Dear all I recently posted about ZerOrigIndia Foundation , a team of experts who are taking up the challenge of answering the question as to when and where the zero digit first appeared. Members of this initiative , including our esteemed Wahid Saleh , recently came across the discovery of a stone slab with epigraphical inscriptions . The stone inscription with numerical figures may possibly be the earliest examples of a ZERO inscription in the world. The Assam ZERO, if reconfirmed by independent sources, would be one of the most important historical discoveries of the world. Please find my following article, which also is published in Horizon , Assam Tribune today. Searching for the First Zero <http://ankurbora.blogspot.com/2017/02/searching-for-first-zero.html> Searching for the First Zero ... Thanks Ankur Mrs. Neelam D Sabharwal , former Ambassador of India to the Netherlands and Permanent Representative of India to UNESCO in Paris has communicated as follows – “I am so happy to see the great progress in your research on the Assam connection. It is also heartening to see Wahid Saleh in his usual form , determined to leave no stone unturned when he has to get to the bottom of the matter.”
