[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) › c9.32 # The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c9.32 The Science of the Śulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c9.32 - **Language:** English ### [c9.32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c9.32) two bricks of two different kinds. Since there is mentioned only one \*ubhayī\* though there are distinguished two different kinds of quarter bricks of a rectangle (the \*adhyardha\*) it follows that Baudhāyana was fully aware, what has been just mentioned, that all the eighth parts of a rectangle are identical. What is much more noteworthy is that in the formation of the \*ubhayī\* we find the source of the discovery of the later Hindu principle of forming a rational scalene tringle by the juxtaposition of two rational right-angled triangles.² - [Previous: c9.31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c9.31) - [Next: c9.33](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c9.33) - [Up: c9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c9) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c9.32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c9.32) · Pramāṇa