shulba-sutra
शुल्बसूत्र shulba-sutraThe class of Kalpa-sutra giving the geometry of altar construction; shulba means 'cord', the measuring line of the altar-builder. They contain the earliest extant verbal statement of the so-called Pythagorean theorem.
Where this term appears
- Why do so many temples face east? Temples
The Shulba Sutras , the manuals that lay out the Vedic fire altars on an exact east-west line, are among the oldest surviving works of geometry anywhere, older than the temples by many centuries and already obs…
- The Rules of the Rite Treatise
The Shulba-sutras govern the building of the altar, the vedi , by the geometry of the cord.