New Indian Values of $$\pi $$ from the Mānava-śulba-sūtra

K. Ramasubramanian ()
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K. Ramasubramanian: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Cell for Indian Science and Technology in Sanskrit, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

A chapter in Gaṇitānanda, 2019, pp 63-72 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract India’s oldest written works are the Vedas. To assist their proper study, there are six ancillary texts, called Vedāṅgas (“limbs of the veda”), namely Śikṣā (Phonetics), Kalpa (Ritualistics), Vyākaraṇa (Grammar), Nirukta (Etymology), Chandas (Prosody) and Jyotiṣa (Astronomy and Astrology).

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-1229-8_11

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