[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) › c7.18 # The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c7.18 The Science of the Śulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c7.18 - **Language:** English ### [c7.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c7.18) Of the known commentaries of the \*Āpastamba Sulba\* the earliest one is, I have good reasons to believe, that of Kapardisvāmī. This writer is known to have commented also on \*Āpastamba-Śrauta-sūtra\*, \*Āpastamba-sūtra-paribhāṣā\*, \*Darśapaurṇamāsa-sūtra\*, \*Bhāradvāja Gṛhya-sūtra\*, etc. He is quoted by Śūlapāṇi, Hemādri, Nīlakaṇṭha and others. Now Śūlapāṇi lived near about 1150 A.D. He was the teacher of the famous Ṣaḍguruśiṣya (1143-1193 A.D.), the author of the \*Vedārthadīpikā\*. Hemādri was the minister of King Mahādeva (1260-71) of Devagiri and of his nephew and successor Rāmachandra (1271-1309). So Kapardisvāmī lived before the twelfth century of the Christian era. He has generalised a method taught in the \*Sulbas\* for finding the rational right-angled triangles having a given leg. He says : - [Previous: c7.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c7.17) - [Next: c7.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c7.19) - [Up: c7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c7) ## Linked texts (2) - [Āpastambaśrautasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.srauta.apastamba) — Āpastamba, Sanskrit - [Bhāradvājagṛhyasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.bharadvaja) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c7.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c7.18) · Pramāṇa