The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c15.61

c15.61

and it occurs at the end of his enunciation of the theorem of the square of the diagonal of a rectangle.⁴ Bürk renders it thus : " The construction (in i. 2 and 3) has been taught by means of (the application of) these (the *akṣṇayārajju*, *pārśvamānī* and *tiryaṅmānī* of a rectangle)—of course by means of such as are " recognizable " (*i.e.*, which can be expressed in integral numbers)."