[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) › c13.15 # The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c13.15 The Science of the Śulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c13.15 - **Language:** English ### [c13.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c13.15) It should be noted that we do not find in the \*Śulba\* any explicit rule for the mensuration of a rectangle. But there is no doubt that it was used to be done in the above way. Similarly from the method of constructing the \*ubhayī\* bricks (Fig. 7) which are of the shape of a scalene triangle, and of the parallelograms (Figs. 32-5; \*cf.\* also Fig. 14), it is clear that the following formulae also were known: - [Previous: c13.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c13.14) - [Next: c13.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c13.16) - [Up: c13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c13) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c13.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c13.15) · Pramāṇa