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| author = Sarvanandi<br />
| language = [[Prakrit]]<br />
| period = 458 CE<br />
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The '''''Lokavibhāga''''' is a [[Jain cosmology|Jain cosmological]] text originally composed in [[Prakrit]] by a [[Digambara monk]], Sarvanandi,<ref>Encyclopaedia of Jainism By Nagendra Kr Singh, Indo-European Jain Research Foundation, Published by Anmol Publications PVT. LTD., 2001</ref> surviving in a later Sanskrit translation by one Siṃhasūri.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.427217|title=Lok Vibhag (1962) Ac 6785|last=Digital Library Of India}}</ref> It the oldest known Indian source to use zero as number.<ref>{{cite book |first=Georges |last=Ifrah |title=The Universal History of Numbers: From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer |page=416 |publisher=Wiley |year=2000 |isbn=0-471-39340-1 }}</ref> Surviving manuscripts of the ''Lokavibhāga'' are listed in v.26 of the ''New Catalogus Catalogorum''.<ref>{{Cite book|title=New catalogus catalogorum: an alphabetical register of Sanskrit and allied works and authors Vol. 26 Vol. 26|last=Dash|first=Siniruddha|date=2013|publisher=Univ. of Madras|location=Madras|oclc = 931470378|language=en}}</ref> Parts of the [[Bakhshali Manuscript]] on arithmetic, which does use a physically written symbol for zero, have been carbon-dated, but the results of this dating are puzzling and are still being debated.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Plofker|first=Kim|last2=Keller|first2=Agathe|last3=Hayashi|first3=Takao|last4=Montelle|first4=Clemency|author4-link= Clemency Montelle |last5=Wujastyk|first5=Dominik|date=2017-10-06|title=The Bakhshālī Manuscript: A Response to the Bodleian Library's Radiocarbon Dating|url=https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/hssa/index.php/hssa/article/view/22|journal=History of Science in South Asia|language=en|volume=5|issue=1|pages=134–150|doi=10.18732/h2xt07|issn=2369-775X|doi-access=free}}</ref> <br />
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The printed edition of the ''Lokavibhāga'' states that the original Prakrit work was composed by Sarvanandin at Patalika in the Banarastra on a certain day the astronomical details of which are given. These correspond to 458 CE. The surviving text is a Sanskrit translation of Sarvanandin's work by one Simhasūri, made "some considerable time" after that date of Sarvanandin.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.511889|title=Some Contributions Of South India To Indian Culture|last=Aiyangar|first=S. Krishnaswami|date=1923}}</ref><br />
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