The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c15.56
The Science of the Śulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c15.56
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c15.56
Thibaut has the reading *vijñeyāni* in the place of *jñeyāni* given by Bürk and also found in my manuscripts. The difference is, however, immaterial. Thibaut translates the passage thus, ' So many " cognizable " measurements of the *vedi* exist.'² Bürk renders it as ' There are so many " recognizable " (erkennbare) constructions of the *vedi*,'³ and has thus closely followed Thibaut. The latter further observes : " That means : these are the measurements of the *vedi* effected by oblongs, of which the sides and the diagonal can be known, *i.e.*, can be expressed in integral numbers." Bürk is of the same opinion.