The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c20.s3.19

c20.s3.19

Now what is the radical significance of the term *saviśeṣa*? Before answering this question, we shall point out that occasionally the term has been used to denote the complete diagonal in general; that is, in the sense *saviśeṣa* of a = a√2.⁵ Again in one instance in the *Āpastamba* *Śulba*,¹ we find the use $Viśeṣa of a = a/3 + a/3.4 - a/3.4.34.$