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³ ‘Baudhāyana Śulva Sūtra’, I. 22-28. The very same method of constructing the square with the help of circles is prescribed in later texts with reference to the square of the Vāstupuruṣa (for instance, ‘Śaradātilaka’, III. 6; VI. 3-7), it is similar to the method prescribed in the ‘Āpastamba Śulva Sūtra’, VIII. 8-10; XI. 1. where a bamboo rod is rotated. The construction of the square by, rotation, of rod or cord, is however not the only one. Three further methods are prescribed in the ‘Śulva Sūtras’ (‘Āpastamba Śulva Sūtra’, I. 7; ‘Baudhāyana Śulva Sūtra’, I. 29-35 and ‘Āpastamba Śulva Sūtra’, I. 2) where the square is constructed by the stretching of the cord only, and without rotation (B. B. Datta, ‘The Science of the Śulba’, pp. 55-62). See also Part VII.