[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) › c24.4 # The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c24.4 The Science of the Śulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c24.4 - **Language:** English ### [c24.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c24.4) Circle; Area of, 95; Division, equal, 42-43; Doubling, 21; Magnitudes, 201; Squaring and vice versa, 18-19, 21, 27, 40, 143-51. (See also, Postulates, Quadrature, Segment, and Square.) Commentators, 10-11, 13, 16-19. Compass, Possibility of, 34 Congruence theorems, 44. Constructions, 52-70; Parallelogram, 67-70; Perpendicular, 42-55; Rectangle, 62-63; Square, 55-62; Trapezium, isosceles, 63-66. (See Altar.) Cylinder, Volume of a, 101. - [Previous: c24.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c24.3) - [Next: c24.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c24.5) - [Up: c24](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c24) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c24.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c24.4) · Pramāṇa