The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c16.26
The Science of the Śulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c16.26
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has been made by Āpastamba as regards his method for squaring the circle and which has been delivered by him immediately following the above one.² The same remark is found also in the corresponding rule of Baudhāyana.³ Here Thibaut entirely agrees with the commentators in breaking up the first word *eṣānityā* into *eṣā anityā*. But Bürk falls out from him and takes the reading to be *eṣā nityā caturasra-karaṇī*. Thus he has kept up the consistency of his opinion.