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The words between brackets are not in the manuscript: I have supplied the apparent hiatus from conjecture.

A triangle of the same proportion is used to illustrate this case in the Lilavati ( Persian transl. p. 121. transl. of the Lilavati, p. 71. and of the Vijagenita, p. 203.)

The words between brackets are in the manuscript written on the margin. I think that the context warrants me sufficiently for haying received them into the text.

The words between brackets are not in the text, I give them merely from my own conjecture.