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The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c14.37

The Science of the Śulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c14.37

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c14.37

" (Take a rectangle whose) breadth is (equal to) the measure (of the side of a square) and length (equal to) its *dvikaraṇī*; its diagonal will be *trikaraṇī* (‘ three-fold-producer’ of the square).