• related to fire-altar construction. The Shulba Sutras are part of the larger corpus of texts called the Shrauta Sutras, considered to be appendices to the...
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    constants. Five Shulba Sutras texts have survived through history, of which the oldest surviving is likely the Baudhayana Shulba Sutra (800-500 BCE), while...
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    the Kalpa Sutras, Shulba Sutras, Srauta Sutras, Dharma Sutras, Grhya Sutras, and Smarta traditions . Other fields for which ancient sutras are known include...
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    with mathematical precision and geometric theorems, are described in Shulba Sutras, one of the precursors to the development of mathematics in ancient...
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  • The Baudhāyana sūtras (Sanskrit: बौधायन सूत्रस् ) are a group of Vedic Sanskrit texts which cover dharma, daily ritual, mathematics and is one of the oldest...
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  • for ritual geometric constructions that are similar to the Sulba Sutras. The Śulba Sūtras (literally, "Aphorisms of the Chords" in Vedic Sanskrit) (c. 700–400...
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    Brahmana Shatapatha Brahmana Bṛhat Saṃhitā Ganitagannadi Jyotirmimamsa Shulba Sutras Panchangam Khandakhadyaka Mahādevī Makarandasarini Siddhantas Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta...
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    sutras, and samhitas Dharma Shastra Artha Śastra Shilpa Shastras Kama Sutra Brahma Sutras Samkhya Sutras Mimamsa Sutras Nyāya Sūtras Vaiśeṣika Sūtra Yoga...
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  • American Oriental Society. Weixing, Nui; Xiaoyuan, Jiang. Astronomy in the Sutras translated into Chinese. Jones, H. (September 2018). "The Origin of the...
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  • related to π, this theory is not widely accepted by scholars. In the Shulba Sutras of Indian mathematics, dating to an oral tradition from the first or...
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    Simple fractions were used by the Egyptians around 1000 BC; the Vedic "Shulba Sutras" ("The rules of chords") in c. 600 BC include what may be the first...
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    requirements of correct performance of religious ritual. Thus, the Shulba Sutras, texts dedicated to altar construction, discusses advanced mathematics...
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    references to such calculations in the Samhitas, Brahmanas, and the Shulba Sutras (800 BC or earlier). It is suggested that the concept of irrationality...
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     300 BC).: Ch 9.1 Examples of ancient Indian mathematics included the Shulba Sutras, the Kerala School, and the Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta. The first cryptographic...
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    specifications related to the construction of a yaga-shala are described in the Shulba Sutras. Fuller, C. J. (9 February 2021). The Renewal of the Priesthood: Modernity...
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  • Sanskrit Paippalada Shakha Recension of Atharva Veda Shakha Sanskrit Shulba Sutras Hinduism Geometry related to fire altar construction in Hinduism, including...
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    incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. "4 II. Sulba Sutras". www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk. Ravi P. Agarwal; Hans Agarwal; Syamal K...
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    Ancient Indian mathematics, as recorded in the Shatapatha Brahmana and Shulba Sutras, used several different approximations to π {\displaystyle \pi } . Archimedes...
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