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Baudhayana sutras
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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 Dharma-related texts of Hinduism that have survived into the modern age from the 1st-millennium BCE.
Quotes
The cord stretched in the diagonal of an oblong produces both [areas] which the cords forming the longer and shorter sides of an oblong produce separately.
(Baudhayana sutra 1.48; Apastambd sutra 1.4; Katyayana sutra 2.11). References from Seidenberg 1983, 98. ** in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press. chapter 12
The diagonal cord of a rectangle makes both (the squares) that the vertical side and the horizontal side make separately.
Baudhayana Sulbasutra:दीर््घचतुरस्रस््ययाक्षष्णया रज््जजुुः पार्शश्वमानी तिर््यङ्मानी च यत््पपृथग््भभूते कुरुतस््तदभु यंकरोति॥१.१२॥
Apastamba Sulbasutra: दीर््घस््ययाक्षष्णयारज््जजुुः पार्शश्वमानी तिर््यङ्मानी च यत् पृथग््भभूते कुरुतस््तदभु यं करोति॥१.४॥
Amma, T. A. Sarasvati. Geometry in Ancient and Medieval India. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2007. Thibaut, G. ‘On the Sulvasutras’. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. XLIV, (1875): pp. 227. quoted from Bhaskar Kamble, The Imperishable Seed: How Hindu Mathematics Changed the World and why this History was Erased, Garuda Prakashan Private Limited, 2022 ISBN 9798885750189
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