The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c12.4

c12.4

“If you wish to transform a rectangle into a square, make its breadth as the side of a square ; divide the remainder into two parts and changing the place (of the farther one of them) and inverting, add it on the other side of the square. Then adding a (square) portion, fill up that (the empty space in the corner). It has been taught (before) how to deduct it (the added square from the full square thus formed).”¹