antyapada

greatest root in the affected square; also called antyamūla,

jyeṣṭhapada, jyeṣṭhamūla and opposed to the ādyapada or ādyamūla,

kaniṣṭhapada or kaniṣṭhamūla ‘the least or first root’. These terms

are thus explained after Brahmagupta by Colebrooke; ‘the

least or first root: that quantity of which the square multi-

plied by the given multiplicator and having the given ad-

dend added, or subtrahend subtracted, is capable of af-

fording an exact square root; the greatest or last root:

the square root which is extracted from the quantity so

operated upon’. E. antya and pada.