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# The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c18.28

The Science of the Śulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c18.28

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### [c18.28](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c18.28)

"Or for the second and following constructions, increase (the usual unit of) the (square) prakrama by itself for every seven constructions; so that (at each successive construction) take for the prakrama, the original value of the prakrama enlarged by its one-seventh."

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