The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c21.s2.26

c21.s2.26

Reference to this progressive mode of successive construction of the Fire-altar is found as early as the *Taittirīya Saṃhitā* (c. 3000 B.C.).³ It reappears in the *Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa* and Āpastamba expressly admits to have borrowed it from that work.⁴ We find there another noteworthy instance which shows that it was very likely known then how to sum up a series in A. P.