Even Power of 3 as Sum of Consecutive Positive Integers/Historical Note

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Historical Note on Even Power of 3 as Sum of Consecutive Positive Integers

In his Curious and Interesting Numbers of $1986$, David Wells attributes this result to M.N. Khatri, referencing its appearance in Volume $20$ of Scripta Mathematica, but it is proving difficult to corroborate this.