India has been a cradle not only to refined civilizational best-practices but also to multitudinous scientific developments. Evidence and knowledge of voluminous literature produced in Indian scientific pursuits has been well established by serious researchers.…

Origins of Combinatorics in Chandas-śāstra The Chandas-śāstra has some very interesting and intricate connection with mathematics. The word chandas means of prosody, the science of metres. It has been estimated by scholars that this Chandas-śāstra…

Origins of Combinatorics in Chandas-śāstra The Chandas-śāstra has some very interesting and intricate connection with mathematics. The word chandas means of prosody, the science of metres. It has been estimated by scholars that this Chandas-śāstra…

In the previous article, we have looked at the lesser known fact that a clear enunciation of the so-called 'Pythagorean' theorem, which must rightly be named the Śulba Theorem (called bhujā-koṭi-karṇa-nyāya in the later literature)  has…

Problem-solving in constructions In the Vedic Era, we have seen that the elaborate construction of larger altars require conforming to certain shapes and stringent prescriptions of areas and perimeters. This set the basis for two…

Context of Development In Indian civilization, we saw that Geometry originated in a very remote age in connection with the construction of the fire altars for the Vedic rituals. In the course of time, geometry…