Indic Siyaq Number Seven

This is the primary unit for seven in South Asian Siyaq notation.

Persian government scribes developed Siyaq in the early Islamic period; its earliest surviving evidence is from the early 10th century. In South Asia, the Indic form was called raqm or rakam (“account”) and appears in Arabic script, also used to write Persian and Urdu. It was common under Mughal rule by the 17th century and continued into the middle of the 20th century. Older abjad notation assigned numerical values to letters; Siyaq used compressed forms of Arabic number names that trained clerks could read. Some records combined Siyaq with Indian place-value numerals to make falsification harder.