Which evidence in the Bakhshali manuscript shows an early Indian use of zero?

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Indian mathematics The evolution of Hindu-Arabic numerals from Brahmi through Devanagari and Arabic to European scripts.

In the Bakhshali manuscript, the evidence for the early Indian use of zero is the employment of a dot as a placeholder symbol.123

This dot was used to indicate the absence of a digit in a specific place value within the manuscript's mathematical notation. While other ancient civilizations used various symbols to mark empty positions, this dot represents the earliest recorded symbol for zero, which eventually evolved into the open circle used in modern numerals.12