A Popular Dictionary of Hinduism
was invented in India, according to indirect evidence, quite early, but the earliest record comes from A.D. 595.
Its discovery may have had some connection with speculations about the ‘potent void’ or vice versa (cf. śūnya and śūnyatā) as there is a kind of similarity between them: although ‘void’ of any intrinsic value of its own, zero has the potential of upgrading other numerals that are joined to it. It has been said that whoever was responsible for the discovery of the zero was in greatness among men second only to the Buddha.
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