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# The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c14.54

The Science of the Śulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c14.54

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### [c14.54](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c14.54)

Bürk thinks that this supposition is less probable, because it has no connecting link with the constructions ordinarily met with in the \*Sulba\*, also because it does not explain what might have induced the Śulbakāras, after they had drawn one square, to construct a new square on the diagonal of the same.

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