The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c18.66

c18.66

For the above reasons we discard this latter interpretation of Kātyāyana's rules and hold that the construction of altars enlarged according to the second plan noted above and which is used to be followed in a certain school of the *Brāhmaṇa*, does undoubtedly depend preliminarily on the solution of the complete quadratic equation, $ax² + bx = c,$ and further that Kātyāyana's results were obtained in this way. Milhaud is stated to have arrived at the former conclusion before.² His article is unfortunately not available to me and so I do not know the arguments adduced by him.