• Shulba Sutras (redirect from Sulbasutras)
    The Shulva Sutras or Śulbasūtras (Sanskrit: शुल्बसूत्र; śulba: "string, cord, rope") are sutra texts belonging to the Śrauta ritual and containing geometry...
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  • 4 Praśnas, the Dharmasûtra in 4 Praśnas and the Śulbasûtra in 3 Adhyāyas. The Baudhāyana Śulbasûtra is noted for containing several early mathematical...
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  • Manava Sulbasutra is not the oldest (the one by Baudhayana is older), nor is it one of the most important, there being at least three Sulbasutras which...
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  • millennium BCE (generally predating Pāṇini). Not verified though The Śulbasûtra (or Shulva-sutras) deal with the mathematical methodology to construct...
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    the first recognition of incommensurables appears in India during the Sulbasutra period, but such claims are not well substantiated. The case for early...
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  • texts ascribed to the Svayambhuva Manu include Manava Grihyasutra, Manava Sulbasutra and Manava Dharmashasta (Manusmṛti or "rules of Manu"). Jain theology...
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  • There are several Śulbasūtras. The most important of these are the Baudhayana Śulbasūtra, written about 800 BCE; the Apastamba Śulbasūtra, written about...
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  • in his which is correct up to five decimal places. Apastamba in his Sulbasutras provide approximate value of square root of 2 as follows: 1 + 1 3 + 1...
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    and constants. Five śulbasutras have survived through history, of which the oldest surviving is likely the Baudhayāna śulbasūtra (800–500 BCE), while...
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  • in the following twelve centuries. He also composed one of the later Śulbasūtras, a series of nine texts on the geometry of altar constructions, dealing...
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  • topic" in Mesopotamia in 1850 BCE. "Since these tablets predate the Sulbasutras period by several centuries, taking into account the contextual appearance...
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  • Daivaigya Vallabha, Laghu Jataka, Yoga Yatra, Vivaha Patal Virasena Dhavala Baudhayana Rishi Baudhayana Sutras, Baudhāyana Sulbasūtra, Baudhāyana Dharmasūtra...
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    types of Vedic Sūtras include the Śrautasūtras (focusing on ritual), Śulbasûtra (on altar construction), Gṛhyasūtras which focus on rites of passage and...
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    proper performance of sacrifice), notably the Satapatha Brahmana, and the Sulbasutras say that the Rigveda corresponds to an altar of mantras. Fire altars...
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    millennium BCE Vedangas and in many later texts such as the Katyayana Sulbasutras. Other discussions of astronomical instruments are found in Hinduism...
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    Sutra (containing geometry related to fire-altar construction) Manava Sulbasutra Baudhayana sutra Shatapatha Brahmana – Commentary on the Vedas Nirukta...
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    the topic" in Mesopotamia in 1850 BC. "Since these tablets predate the Sulbasutras period by several centuries, taking into account the contextual appearance...
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    ISBN 978-1-4020-0260-1. Kulkarni, R.P. (1978). "The Value of π known to Śulbasūtras" (PDF). Indian Journal of History of Science. 13 (1): 32–41. Archived...
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    early approximation is given in ancient Indian mathematical texts, the Sulbasutras (c. 800–200 BC), as follows: Increase the length [of the side] by its...
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  • Arthashastra, eight Trasareṇus equals one Liksha. The angula is defined in the Śulbasūtras as the length covered by 14 grains of millet arranged width-wise; Kautilya...
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    Nagarjuna University, 2018. The Origin of Geometry in India: A Study in the Sulbasutras. New Castle on Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019. More Studies...
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    minorities...... It is claimed that some of the mathematical formulas of the Sulbasutras are found in the Indus inscriptions... The method is so flexible and...
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