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³ For this translation and its rationale in terms of modern mathematics, see R.C. Gupta, 'Second order of interpolation in Indian mathematics up to the fifteenth century', Indian Jl. of Hist. of Sc., 4 (1969) 92-94. For a traditional elucidation, see commentary by Śaṅkara Vāriyar on Nīlakaṇṭha's Tantra-saṅgraha, II, 10-13 (edn. Trivandrum, 1953, pp. 19-20) and Yuktibhāṣā, op. cit., pp. 168-71.