"The issue of transmission does not end with the receipt of the calculus in Europe. Because of the epistemological differences between Indian and European mathematics, actual assimilation of the calculus took a long time. It is worthwhile trying to understand this assimilation process, since this sheds light on the historical as well as the contemporary mathematical situation, and since such a task seems never before to have been attempted by historians of mathematics, who have not acknowledged or understood the historical existence of epistemological differences within mathematics."