[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932) › c20.s3.22 # 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 - **Language:** English ### [c20.s3.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.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: - [Previous: c20.s3.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c20.s3.21) - [Next: c20.s3.23](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c20.s3.23) - [Up: c20.s3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c20.s3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c20.s3.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c20.s3.22) · Pramāṇa