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Pythagoras Theorem and Baudhayana Sutra ..................................


"The Pythagoras Theorem had its origin in the Sulba Sutras of Baudhayana and Apastamba" -  Leopold Van Schroeder, Indologist.

One of the popular theorem which we learnt in our school life in the name of Pythagoras Theorem was known to Indians 1000 years before Pythagoras.But how???????????

Let's have a look on the slokha and its translation given below...........


The areas (of the squares) produced separately by the length and breadth of a rectangle together equal the area (of the square) produced by the diagonal.




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