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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 ...
Vedic Mathematics is a book written by Indian Shankaracharya Bharati Krishna Tirtha and first published in 1965. It contains a list of mathematical techniques which were falsely claimed to contain advanced mathematical knowledge. [ 1 ]
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.
Baudhayana sutras: Vedic Sanskrit texts covering dharma, daily ritual, mathematics. Bhagavad Gītā ( भगवद् गीता ): The national gospel contained in Mahābhārata, Part of the epic poem Mahabharata , located in the Bhishma-Parva chapters 23–40.
Bharatikrishna's book, Vedic Mathematics, is a list of sixteen terse sūtras, or "aphorisms", discussing strategies for mental calculation. Bharatikrishna claimed that he found the sūtras after years of studying the Vedas , a set of sacred ancient Hindu scriptures.
The Apastamba Dharmasutra is the 28th and 29th prashna of this compilation, [16] while the first 24 prashnas are about Shrautasutras (vedic rituals), 25th is an ancillary mantra section, 26th and 27th are Grihyasutras (householder rites of passage), and the last or the 30th prashna is a Shulbasutra (mathematics for altar building).
Līlāvatī is a treatise by Indian mathematician Bhāskara II on mathematics, written in 1150 AD. It is the first volume of his main work, the Siddhānta Shiromani, [1] alongside the Bijaganita, the Grahaganita and the Golādhyāya. [2] A problem from the Lilavati by Bhaskaracharya. Written in the 12th century.
The sutras of definitive meaning are those that are taught in order to reveal the ultimate reality. The former assist entry on to the path, deal with the seeming, afflicted by phenomena, how to engage in proper actions, cause weariness with cyclic existence, teach variety of terms and definitions, give detailed explanations about the sentient ...