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The Shulba Sutras are part of the larger corpus of texts called the Shrauta Sutras, considered to be appendices to the Vedas. They are the only sources of knowledge of Indian mathematics from the Vedic period. Unique Vedi (fire-altar) shapes were associated with unique gifts from the Gods. For instance, "he who desires heaven is to construct a ...
Sulba Sutras at the MacTutor archive. St Andrews University, 2002. ... 2002. B.B. Dutta."The Science of the Shulba". This page was last edited on 7 July 2024, at 03: ...
Some examples of sutra texts in various schools of Hindu philosophy include Brahma Sutras (or Vedanta Sutra) – a Sanskrit text, composed by Badarayana, likely sometime between 200 BCE to 200 CE. [34] The text contains 555 sutras in four chapters that summarize the philosophical and spiritual ideas in the Upanishads. [35]
The verses 1-2 of Baudhayana Shulba Sutra state that the squares of any rectangle's width and length add up to the square of its diagonal. [17] This is one of the earliest descriptions of Pythagorean theorem, appearing many centuries before Pythagoras. The Śrautasūtras (Shrauta-sutra) form a part of the corpus of Sanskrit sūtra literature ...
The Dharmasutra is attributed to Apastamba, the founder of a Shakha (Vedic school) of Yajurveda. [2] According to the Hindu tradition, Apastamba was the student of Baudhayana, and himself had a student named Hiranyakesin.
Shulba Sutra (containing geometry related to fire-altar construction) Manava Sulbasutra; Baudhayana sutra; Shatapatha Brahmana – Commentary on the Vedas; Nirukta (technical treatise on etymology, lexical category and the semantics of Sanskrit words) Kausitaka Upanishad; Greek: Hesiod: Theogony and Works and Days; Archilochus; Alcman ...
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Thus, the Shulba Sutras, texts dedicated to altar construction, discusses advanced mathematics and basic astronomy. [13] Vedanga Jyotisha is another of the earliest known Indian texts on astronomy, [14] it includes the details about the Sun, Moon, nakshatras, lunisolar calendar.