History of Hindu Mathematics: A Source Book v2.c17.s1.33

v2.c17.s1.33

“What the learned calculators (*sâmkhyâḥ*) describe as the originator of intelligence, being directed by a wise being (*satpuruṣa*) and which alone is the primal cause (*bîja*) of all knowns (*vyakta*), I venerate that Invisible God as well as that Science of Calculation with Unknowns... Since questions can scarcely be solved without the reasoning of algebra—not at all by those of dull perceptions—I shall speak, therefore; of the operations of analysis.”⁵