Talk:Letter written on 18 Oct 1962

Evidence to be considered for the date of the letter must primarily be derived from its image in the letter, so here is that portion, blown up, click for max magnification. A few things:

First, there is no ambiguity about the last four digits, 10 - 62. The second digit is also unambiguous, given an awareness of how Osho writes his eights, with an extra stroke on top making them sometimes look like twos, but here, clearly, it is an eight. Thus the only problem is the first digit.

In calendar logic, it can only be a 0, 1 or 2. What it looks like is that it once was one of those three and then corrected to one of the others. Now, Osho does not use zeros as first digits in writing dates, so we can eliminate the possibility of a zero changed to something else. And looking more deeply into the first digit, it seems that a one is involved, as a part of the form looks very much like the one in "10". And no part looks like the two in "62". One cannot contrive a two out of that mess. All this leaves a one scratched out with random strokes, a one cancelled, as the only possibility, and thus "8" is the intended date. According to moi. -- doofus-9 09:06, 25 December 2019 (UTC)

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It is clearly that here is 18 Oct. I am going to correct the date. Ok?--DhyanAntar 04:20, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

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It is not clear at all that the first digit is unambiguously a 1. You can do what you like, but we disagree about what the first digit is intended to be, so the situation cannot be called clear.. It is clear that there is or was a 1 at some point, and to me it looks like a 1 before a correction. -- doofus-9 05:08, 28 December 2019 (UTC)

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Ok. Perhaps i went in wrong direction. Thanks for my returning from there :-) --DhyanAntar 14:08, 28 December 2019 (UTC)

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Now resolved by input from Dilip to 18 Oct -- doofus-9 23:14, 10 March 2020 (UTC)