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Thanks for the callout to my Telugu fractions article!

If you enjoy ৪ being four and ৭ seven you will probably enjoy the thousand-year-old magic square inscribed at the Parshvanatha temple in Madhya Pradesh.

https://blog.plover.com/math/magic-square-puzzle.html

Shreevatsa R. tells me that the digit symbols are probably Nagari, which predates Devanagari.



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