The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c10.102

c10.102

The reference in the end of the rule is to the bent of the wing of the falcon-shaped altar where these bricks shall have to be used. Thibaut observes: "By 'nata, bent' the sūtrakāra means to indicate the sides of the brick bo not form rectangles. The shape of the brick is rhomboidical, the angles, which the sides form with each other are the same which the wings of the *śyena* form with the body."³