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# The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c9.37

The Science of the Śulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c9.37

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### [c9.37](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c9.37)

Baudhāyana on a certain occasion says, "this (triangle) is divided into ten parts."¹ But how to do it he does not explain expressly. We, however, learn it from the commentators that the traditional practice in such a case was

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