[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) › c15.67 # 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 - **Language:** English ### [c15.67](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.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. - [Previous: c15.66](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c15.66) - [Next: c15.68](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c15.68) - [Up: c15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c15) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c15.67](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c15.67) · Pramāṇa