The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c15.67
The Science of the Śulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c15.67
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c15.67
Again for the purpose of the construction of altars, Āpastamba has used even such rectangles in which the sides and the diagonal cannot be expressed in terms of rational numbers.² So the interpretation of the words *jñeyāni* and *jñeyābhiḥ*, as supposed by Thibaut and Bürk, is absolutely untenable.