The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c13.5
The Science of the Śulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c13.5
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c13.5
In the *Śulba* we find express rules for the mensuration of squares and isosceles trapeziums only. It is certain that mensuration of certain other elementary figures, such as triangles and rectangles, was also known in that time. The area of the circle was only roughly approximate. Other kinds of rectilinear figures, particularly the Fire-altars of various shapes enumerated before, were used to be mensurated by breaking them up into elementary triangles, squares and rectangles.