The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c8.4
The Science of the Śulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c8.4
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c8.4
The Vedic sacrifices are mainly of two classes: *Nitya* (or "indispensable," "obligatory") and *Kāmya* ("optional," "intentional"). The performance of the sacrifices of the former class is obligatory upon every Vedic Hindu. It will be a sin for him if he does not do them. But it is not so with the sacrifices of the second kind. For they are to be performed each with the sole motive of achieving a special object. Those who do not aim at the attainment of any such object need not perform any of them.