The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c14.74
The Science of the Śulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c14.74
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c14.74
" (Take a rectangle whose) breadth is two padas and length six padas ; its diagonal is the ‘forty-fold-generator’ (*i.e.*, it produces a square forty times as large as a square of one pada)."¹