History of Hindu Mathematics: A Source Book v2.c17.s1.34

v2.c17.s1.34

⁵ In the first part of this passage every principal term has been used with a double significance. The term *sâmkhyâḥ* (literally, “expert calculators”) signifies the “Sâmkhya philosophers” in one sense, “mathematicians” in the other; *satpuruṣa* “the self-existent being of the Sâmkhya philosophy” or “a wise mathematician”; *vyakta* “manifested universe” or “the science of calculation with knowns.”