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Shulba Sutras - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Shulba Sutras or Śulbasūtras (Sanskrit śulba : "string, cord, rope") are sutra texts belonging to the Śrauta ritual and containing geometry related to fire-altar construction. The Sh...
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Baudhayana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Baudhāyana , (fl. ca. 800 BCE) was an Indian mathematician, who was most likely also a priest. He is noted as the author of the earliest Sulba Sutra — appendices to the Vedas giving rules for the c...
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The later Sulba-sutras represent the 'traditional' material along with further related elaboration of Vedic mathematics. The Sulba-sutras have been dated from around 800-200 BC, and further to the expansion of topics in the Vedangas, contain a number of significant developments.
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Sulba Sutra means "Rule of Chords" in Vedic Sanskrit, and is another name for geometry. The Sulba Sutras were appendices to the Vedas giving rules for the construction of religious altars. The following discoveries found in these texts are mostly a result of altar construction: The first use of irrational numbers.
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The Sulbbas or Sulba Sutras are manuals for the construction of altars. They ... exant Sulba sutras, that of Baudhayana is the oldest and the biggest. It is ...
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The Baudhayana Sulba-sutra is the oldest (600-500 B.C.)and the most voluminous ... Other sulba-sutras referred to are minor works and do not throw any ...
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The Kalpa-Sutras are again divided into the Srauta, Grihya, Dharma and Sulba Sutras meaning respectively the rules regarding Vedic sacrifice, domestic sacrifice, human conduct, and the principles of laying out sacrificial altars, and the like.
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The name "Sulba Sutra" means rule of chords, which is another name for Geometry . Of the Sulvas so far uncovered, the four major and most mathematically significant are those composed by Baudhayana , Manava , Apastamba and Katyayana . These Sulba Sutras have been dated from around 800-500 BC and include first use of ...
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was most likely also a priest. ... Apastamba (c. 600 BC ) and Katyayana (c. 200 BC ), authors of other sulba sutras, extend some of Baudhayana's ideas. Apastamba provides a more general proof of the Pythagorean theorem.
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Sulba-sutras deal with rules for the measurements and constructions of various sacrificial alters and consequently involve geometrical propositions and problems relating to rectilinear figures, their combinations and transformations, squaring the circle, circling the square as well as arithmetical and algebraic solutions...
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