The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c6.6

c6.6

Or "There were 21 different schools of the *Ṛg-veda*; 101 schools of the *Yajur-veda*; 1,000 of the *Sāma-veda*; and 9 or 15 of the *Atharva-veda*." Each school of the *Veda* had its own *Śrauta-sūtra* and hence probably its own *Śulba*. Thus it seems that there were numerous manuals of geometry in ancient India. But most of them are now lost.