[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) › c8.60 # The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c8.60 The Science of the Śulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c8.60 - **Language:** English ### [c8.60](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c8.60) We shall now proceed to show, as briefly as possible, that some of the specifications about the shape and size of the various \*Vedi\* and \*Agni\* and about their relative positions, which we find in the \*Śulba\* can be clearly traced to earlier \*Saṁhitā\* and \*Brāhmaṇa\*. This will doubtless corroborate the traditional origin of the science of Hindu Geometry in a very remote age to be true. We have already shown the ancient origin of the three fundamental altars, the \*Gārhapatya\*, \*Āhavanīya\* and \*Dakṣiṇāgni\*. Their relative positions are described in the \*Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa\*¹ and \*Śrauta-sūtra\* ² to be identical. According to all the \*Saṁhitā\* ³ and \*Brāhmaṇa\*, ⁴ as in the \*Śulba\*, the \*Gārhapatya citi\* must be constructed with the same number of bricks, namely 21, arranged in an identical manner. It is further stated in the \*Taittirīya Saṁhitā\*: - [Previous: c8.59](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c8.59) - [Next: c8.61](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c8.61) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c8.60](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c8.60) · Pramāṇa