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The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c14.73

The Science of the Śulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c14.73

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c14.73

" (Take a rectangle whose) breadth is one pada and length three padas ; its diagonal is the ‘ten-fold-generator’ (*i.e.*, it generates a square ten times as large as a square of one pada).