[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) › c12.4 # The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c12.4 The Science of the Śulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c12.4 - **Language:** English ### [c12.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.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 - [Previous: c12.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c12.3) - [Next: c12.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c12.5) - [Up: c12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c12) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c12.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c12.4) · Pramāṇa