Indian Mathematics c8.17

c8.17

The curious may compare *pārśva* ‘a rib,’ ‘side’ with the Greek *pleura*; *koṭi* which primarily means a claw or horn but is used for the perpendicular side of a triangle, with *káthetos*; *jātya* which means ‘legitimate,’ ‘genuine,’ but is used to denote a right-angled triangle with *orthogōnia*; and so on.