[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932) › c14.74 # 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 - **Language:** English ### [c14.74](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.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 - [Previous: c14.73](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c14.73) - [Next: c14.75](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c14.75) - [Up: c14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c14) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c14.74](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c14.74) · Pramāṇa