The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c14.55
The Science of the Śulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c14.55
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c14.55
Such construction is not really as unnatural for the Śulbakāras as is supposed by Bürk. It is indeed clearly in evidence in the pattern of the first layer of bricks in the first kind of construction of the *Vakrapakṣa-śyenacit* as described by Baudhāyana.¹ To draw the attention directly, the relevant portions of it are here marked with bold lines² (Fig. 64). Further Baudhāyana teaches us to construct a square (brick) with half the diagonal of another square.³ This leads to a construction of the kind supposed by Thibaut.