[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) › c21.s2.44 # The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c21.s2.44 The Science of the Śulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c21.s2.44 - **Language:** English ### [c21.s2.44](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.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 - [Previous: c21.s2.43](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c21.s2.43) - [Next: c21.s2.45](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c21.s2.45) - [Up: c21.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c21.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c21.s2.44](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c21.s2.44) · Pramāṇa