History of Hindu Mathematics: A Source Book v1.c8.s8.t1.14

v1.c8.s8.t1.14

The following quotations from Siddhasena Gaṇi (*c.* 550) in his commentary on the *Tatvârthâdhigama-sûtra*³ will prove conclusively that the Hindu method of extracting the square-root was not algebraic. In connection with the determination of the circumference of a circle of 100,000 *yojanas*, he says: