The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c13.s3.11
The Science of the Śulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c13.s3.11
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c13.s3.11
“ Increase the (usual) vertical measure of the Fire-altar by its one-fifth. Then divide the total height into three parts, and make bricks with (the height equal to) the fourth, ninth or fourteenth part of two of these parts. Construct four, nine or fourteen layers with them. Divide the remaining part (having constructed it with one layer of bricks of the height of one-third the total height) by the diagonal (plane) inclined down towards the west and remove the half (*i.e.*, the upper portion).”³