The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c22.32
The Science of the Śulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c22.32
- Language
- English
c22.32
*Circle*.—In the *Śulba*, the circle is designated the *maṇḍala* ("round"),⁵ *pari-maṇḍala* ("round on all sides");⁶ the circumference, *parināha*⁷ ("bounding line on all sides"), and the diameter, *viṣkambha*⁸ or *vyāsa* ("breadth"). The centre of the circle is called *madhya* ("middle"). But this term is also used in more general sense for the middlemost point of a square or rectangle,⁹ or of a line.¹⁰ The segment of the circle is denoted by the term *pradhi*.¹¹