The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c18.47

c18.47

"The first (*i.e.*, when constructed for the first time) Fire-altar has an area of seven and a half square puruṣas. The second contains eight and a half; the third, nine and a half. In this way, the addition of one puruṣa takes place at each successive construction up to the *ekaśata-vidha* (*i.e.*, 'the construction including an area of 101½ square puruṣas'). After that, the *ekaśata-vidha Agni* should be repeated (without making any further enlargement of it.) Or else the sacrifice should be performed without an *Agni*."¹