History of Hindu Mathematics: A Source Book v2.c17.s17.11

v2.c17.s17.11

"If, however, even after the second side has been so treated, it does not turn out to be a case for the Square-nature, then the intelligent (mathematicians) should devise by their own sagacity all such artifices as will make it a case for the method of the Square-nature and then determine the values of the unknowns."\∗1