[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) › c17.25 # The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c17.25 The Science of the Śulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c17.25 - **Language:** English ### [c17.25](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c17.25) It is thus clear that the principle underlying the early Hindu method of construction of an isosceles trapezium similar to a given one but of n times the size of it, n being integral or fractional, is practically the same as that of the given one, only the unit of measurement of the latter being replaced by another √n times it.³ This principle they adopted systematically for the construction of similar figures of more complicated shapes, even when the change in the size does not bear a simple relation to the size of the given figure. Thus arose the proposition: - [Previous: c17.24](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c17.24) - [Next: c17.26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c17.26) - [Up: c17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c17) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c17.25](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c17.25) · Pramāṇa