[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) › c23 # The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c23: Bibliography of the Śulba The Science of the Śulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c23 - **Language:** English ### Bibliography of the Śulba ### [c23.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.1) I ### [c23.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.2) The following works on the \*Śulba\* and their commentaries, published and unpublished, have been made use of in this book.¹ ### [c23.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.3) ¹ In the collection of the Calcutta University, there is a good number of transcripts of the works on the \*Śulba\* and their commentaries. We have noted below, along with them, the original manuscripts from which they have been transcribed. The key to the abbreviations used is as follows : Ady. Lib. = Library of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, Southern India. Asiat. Soc. Ben. = Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta. Bhand. O. Inst. = Bhandarkar Oriental Institute, Poona. Bom. Br. Roy. Asiat. Soc. = Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Bombay. Bom. Univ. = Bombay University. Ind. Off. Lib. = Library of the India Office at London. Mad. O. Ms. Lib. = Government Oriental Manuscripts Library, Madras. Mys. O. Ms. Lib. = Government Oriental Manuscripts Library, Mysore. Tanj. Pal. Lib. = Palace Library of the Mahāraja of Tanjore. ### [c23.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.4) 1 . \*Baudhāyana Śulba\* : ### [c23.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.5) This work was published by G. Thibaut with English translation, critical notes, extracts from the commentary of Dvārakanātha Yajvā and a few diagrams, in the \*Paṇḍit\*, a monthly journal, now defunct, of the Sanskrit College of Benares: Old Series, IX and X, 1874-5; New Series, I, 1877. The text is printed in the \*Baudhāyana Śrauta Sūtra\*, being the 30th Chapter of it, edited by W. Caland, in three volumes, Calcutta, 1904, 1907, 1913. Besides these printed works, the manuscripts consulted are: ### [c23.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.6) (1·1) Text only: ### [c23.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.7) C. U. 21 ### [c23.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.8) (1·2) Text with the commentary, entitled \*Śulba-dīpikā\*, of Dvārakanātha Yajvā: ### [c23.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.9) C. U. 15 (= Tanj. Pal. Lib., No. 3743B). C. U. 15 (a) (= Tanj. Pal. Lib., No. 3742, collated with No. 3743B). C. U. 21 (= Tanj. Pal. Lib., No. 9160(\*b\*), collated with No. 3743B), ### [c23.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.10) (1·3) Text with the commentary, \*Śulba-mīmāṁsā\*, of Veṅkaṭeśvara Dīkṣita: ### [c23.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.11) C. U. 42 (= Bhand. O. Inst., No. 96 of 1891-95). ### [c23.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.12) 2. \*Āpastamba Śulba\*: ### [c23.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.13) This has been edited and published by A. Bürk, with German translation, notes and comments, helpful extracts from the commentaries of Kapardisvāmī, Karavindasvāmī and Sundararāja, and diagrams, together with a masterly introduction, in the \*Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenländischen Gessellschaft\*, LV, 1902, pp. 543-591; LVI, 1903, pp. 327-391. Manuscripts consulted are: ### [c23.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.14) (2·1) Text only: ### [c23.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.15) C. U. 16 (= Tanj. Pal. Lib., No. 3846). C. U. 27 (= Bom. Univ.). C. U. 34 (= Ady. Lib.). ### [c23.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.16) (2·2) Text with the commentary, \*Śulba-vyākhyā\*, of Kapardisvāmī: ### [c23.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.17) C. U. 1 (= Mad. O. Ms. Lib., No. 777 collated with No. 151 (\*b\*)). ### [c23.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.18) C. U. 17 (=Tanj. Pal. Lib., No. 3851). C. U. 52 (=Mad. O. Ms. Lib.). C. U. 54 (=Mys. O. Ms. Lib.). ### [c23.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.19) (2.3) Text with the commentary, \*Śulba-pradīpikā\*, of Karavindasvāmī : C. U. 18 (=Tanj. Pal. Lib., No. 3852), C. U. 31 (=Ms. of Pandit Gopal Desikacarya of Kumbhakonam). C. U. 49 (=Mad. O. Ms. Lib.). C. U. 50 (=Do. another copy). C. U. 53 (=Mys. O. Ms. Lib.), ### [c23.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.20) (2·4) Text with the commentary, \*Śulba-pradīpa\*, of Sundararāja : C. U. 10 (=Ms. of Pandit Gopal Desikacarya of Kumbhakonam). C. U. 19 (=Tanj. Pal. Lib., No. 9160 (a)̄). C. U. 20 (=Tanj. Pal. Lib., No. 9160 (a) collated with 9172 (a) ). C. U. 32 (=Ady. Lib.). C. U. 33 (=Do., another copy). C. U. 43 (=Bhand. O. Lib., No. 23 of A 1879-80). C. U. 44 (=Mad. O. Ms. Lib. No. R 911 (a). C. U. 51 (=Mad. O. Ms. Lib., No. 5812). C. U. 55 (=Mys. O. Ms. Lib.). ### [c23.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.21) (2·5) Text with the commentary, \*Āpastambīya Śulba-bhāṣya\*, of Gopāl. ### [c23.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.22) (3) \*Kātyāyana Śulba\* : ### [c23.23](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.23) A portion of this work, only the first two chapters, was published by G. Thibaut with English translation and the commentary, entitled the \*Śulba-sūtra-vṛtti\* of Rāma (c. 1450 A.D.) in the \*Paṇḍit\*, New Series, IV, 1882. Manuscripts consulted are: ### [c23.24](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.24) (3.1) Text only : ### [c23.25](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.25) C. U. 41 (= Bhand. O. Inst., No 74 of A 1881-82). It contains also the transcript of the MS. of the \*Pariśiṣṭa\* of Kātyāyana Śulba in the Ind. Off. Lib., No. E 363. ### [c23.26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.26) C. U. 45 (= Bom. Br. Roy. Asiat. Soc. Lib.). ### [c23.27](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.27) (3·2) Text with the commentary, \*Śulba-Sūtra-vivaraṇa\*, of Mahīdhara (1589 A.D.): ### [c23.28](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.28) C. U. 41 (= Bhand. O. Inst., No. 363 of 1883-84). ### [c23.29](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.29) C. U. 46 (= Bom. Br. Roy. Asiat. Soc. Lib.). ### [c23.30](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.30) 4. \*Mānava Śulba\*: ### [c23.31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.31) C. U. 23 (= Asiat. Soc. Ben., No. I. E. 17); the text with the commentary of Śivadāsa. ### [c23.32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.32) C. U. 29 (= Bom. Univ.); the text only. ### [c23.33](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.33) 5. \*Maitrāyanīya Śulba\*: ### [c23.34](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.34) C. U. 47 (= Bom. Br. Roy. Asiat. Soc.); the text with the commentary of Śaṅkara. ### [c23.35](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.35) 6. \*Varāha Śulba\*: ### [c23.36](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.36) C. U. 30 (= Mys. O. Ms. Lib.). ### [c23.37](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.37) II ### [c23.38](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.38) Following is a list of articles dealing primarily with the mathematics in the \*Śulba\*: ### [c23.39](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.39) (1) Bürk, A.—"Das Āpastamba Śulba-sūtra," \*Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenländischen Gesellschaft\*, LV, 1901, pp. 543-591; LVI, 1902, pp. 327-391. ### [c23.40](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.40) (2) Cantor, M.—"Über die älteste indische Mathematik," \*Archiv der Mathematik und Physik\*, VIII (3), 1905, pp. 63-72. ### [c23.41](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.41) (3) ,, — "Gräko-indische Studien," \*Zeitschrift für Mathematik und Physik\*, XXII, Hist. Lit. ### [c23.42](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.42) (4) Datta, B—"The Origin of Hindu Indeterminate Analysis," \*Archion\*, XIII, 1931, pp. 401-7. ### [c23.43](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.43) (5) Levi, B.—"Observazioni e congetture sopra la geometria degli Indiani," \*Bibliotheca Mathematica\*, IX (3), 1909/10, p. 97. ### [c23.44](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.44) (6) Mazumdar, N. K.—"Mānava Śulba Sūtram," \*Journal of the Department of Letters in the Calcutta University\*, VIII, 1922. ### [c23.45](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.45) (7) ,,—"On the Different Śulba Sūtras," \*Proceedings and Transactions of the Second Oriental Conference, Calcutta\*, 1922, pp. 561-4. ### [c23.46](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.46) (8) Milhaud, G.—"La geometric d'Āpastamba," \*Revue générale des Sciences\*, XXI, 1910, pp. 512-520. ### [c23.47](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.47) (9) Müller, C.—"Die Mathematik der Śulvasūtra," \*Abhand. a. d. Math. Sem. d. Hamburg. Univ.\*, Bd. VII. 1929, pp. 173-204. ### [c23.48](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.48) (10) Thibaut, G.—"On the Śulva-sūtras," \*Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal\*, XLIV, 1875, pp. 227-275. ### [c23.49](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.49) (11) ,, —"The Baudhāyana Śulva-sūtra, \*The Paṇḍit, Old Series\*, IX, X; \*New Series\*, I. ### [c23.50](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.50) (12) ,, —"The Kātyāyana Śulva-sūtra; " \*The Paṇḍit, New Series\*, IV. ### [c23.51](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.51) (13) Vogt, H.—"Der Pythagoreischen Lehrsatz in der ältesten Geometrie der Inder," \*Schlesiche Gesellschaft, Jahresberichte der Math. Sec\*, LXXXIV, 1906, pp. 3-4. ### [c23.52](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.52) (14) ,, —"Haben die alten Inder den Pythagorsischen Lehrsatz und das Irrationale gekant?" \*Bibliotheca Mathematica\*, VII. (3), 1906/7, pp. 6-23. ### [c23.53](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.53) (15) Weber, A.—"Zur Kenntniss des vedischen Opferrituals," \*Indische Studien\*, XIII, pp. 215-292. ### [c23.54](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.54) (16) Zeuthen, H. G.—"Sur l'Arithmétique Géometrique des Grecs et des Indiens," \*Bibliotheca Mathematica\*, 1904, pp. 97-112. ### [c23.55](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.55) (17) Zeuthen, H. G.—"Theorème dé Pythagore, Origine de la Geometrie scientifique," \*Comptes Rendus du IIme Congrés internationale de Philosophie\*, Genéve, 1904. ### [c23.56](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.56) III ### [c23.57](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.57) Valuable information on the subject can also be had from the following standard works and articles: ### [c23.58](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.58) (1) Cantor, M.—\*Geschichte der Mathematik\*, I₃, pp. 635-645. ### [c23.59](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.59) (2) Datta, B.—"Hindu Contribution to Mathematics," \*Bulletin of the Mathematical Association of the University of Allahabad\*, I to II, pp. 1ff. ### [c23.60](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.60) (3) ,, —"The Scope and Development of the Hindu Gaṇita," \*Indian Historical Quarterly\*, V, 1929, pp. 479-512. ### [c23.61](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.61) (4) Dutt, R. C.—\*A History of Civilisation in Ancient India\*, revised edition, London 1893, I, pp. 260 ff. ### [c23.62](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.62) 5) Hankel, H.—\*Zur Geschichte der Mathematik im Alterthum und Mittelalter\*, Leipzig, 1874. ### [c23.63](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.63) (6) Heath, T.—\*The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements\*, I, Cambridge, 1908, pp. 352-364. ### [c23.64](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.64) (7) Von Schroeder, L.—\*Indien Literatur und Kultur\*, Leipzig, 1887. ### [c23.65](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23.65) (8) ,, —\*Pythagoras und die Inder\*, Leipzig, 1884. --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c23) · Pramāṇa