The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c19.s2.17

c19.s2.17

Since in this method the values of m, n, p, q are perfect squares. the shape of all the bricks are square. Baudhāyana has described a second method of construction of the *Agni* in which he employs certain rectangular bricks too. These bricks, it may be noted, are easily divisible into square shapes. But as that will increase the number of bricks employed in the construction of the *Agni* he has refrained from doing so. All those things are, however, immaterial for us who look upon his problem from the point of view of the solution of algebraic equations. Baudhāyana's new solutions of the equations (B) are²