The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c20.s3.22
The Science of the Śulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c20.s3.22
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c20.s3.22
But on several occasions in this work and also in other *Śulbas*,² particularly in a compound word, the term *viśeṣa* has been employed in the sense of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle. And it has again been considered there as equivalent to *saviśeṣa*.³ The concluding portion of Kātyāyana's statement of the rule for *saviśeṣa* runs thus: