[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932) › c10.49 # The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c10.49 The Science of the Śulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c10.49 - **Language:** English ### [c10.49](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c10.49) ³ \*TS\*, v. 2. 5. 1ff. In the early \*Saṃhitā\* and \*Brāhmaṇa\* is found a mythological relation between the \*Agni\* and the \*Veṇu\* ("bamboo-rod"). Thus \*Taittirīya Saṃhitā\* observes, "He metes with a bamboo; the bamboo is connected with Agni; (verily it serves) to unite him with his birth place" (v. 2. 5. 2). The connection has been narrated in that work thus: "Agni went away from the gods; he entered the reed; he resorted to the hole which is formed by the perforation of the reed." This mythology reappears in the \*Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā\* (iii. 2. 4) and \*Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa\*. The latter describes, "Agni went away from the gods; he entered into a reed, whence it is hollow, and whence inside it is, as it were, smoke-tinged” (vi.3.1.26); again “Agni went away from the gods. He entered into a bamboo-stem; whence that is hollow. On both sides he made himself those fences, the knots, so as not to be found out; and wherever he burnt through, those spots came to be” (vi.3.1.31). - [Previous: c10.48](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c10.48) - [Next: c10.50](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c10.50) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c10) ## Cites (3) - [Kṛṣṇayajurvedasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.krsnayajur*maitrayani.3.2.4) — Sanskrit - [Kṛṣṇayajurvedasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.krsnayajur*taittiriya) — Sanskrit - [Śatapathabrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.satapatha) — Yājñavalkya & Śāṇḍilya (Vedic teacher), Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c10.49](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c10.49) · Pramāṇa