The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c21.s2.44

c21.s2.44

He made himself 20 bodies of 36 bricks each: he did not succeed. He did not develop either twenty-onefold, or twenty-twofold, or twenty-threefold. He made himself 24 bodies of 30 bricks each. There he stopped, at the fifteenth; and because he stopped at the fifteenth arrangement there are fifteen forms of the waxing, and fifteen of the waning (moon).” ¹