History of Hindu Mathematics: A Source Book v2.c17.s8.81

v2.c17.s8.81

² Referring to the two terms on the unknown side of the complete quadratic. Or the text *varga-râśâvekasya* may be rendered as "of one out of the unknown quantity and its square." According to the commentators Sûryadâsa (1541) and Kṛṣṇa (1580), it implies "of one between the two square terms," *viz*., the square of the unknown and the square of the absolute number.