The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c10.99
The Science of the Śulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c10.99
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c10.99
For the proper construction of an altar of prescribed size and shape, it was sometimes necessary to make bricks of the shape of a parallelogram having given sides at a given inclination. For instance, Āpastamba says: