Question

Which of these was a major scientific achievement in ancient India?
a. silver and copper coin age
b. Baudhayana Sulba Sutra
c. making different kinds of swords
d. None of these​

Answer 1

Explanation:

b.Baudhaya Sulba Sutra

Answer 2

Baudhayana Sulba Sutra was a major scientific achievement in ancient India (Option b)

• The Baudhāyana sutras are a group of Vedic Sanskrit texts which cover dharma, daily ritual, mathematics.
• It is one of the oldest Dharma-related texts of Hinduism that have survived into the modern age from the 1st-millennium BCE.

• Baudhayana Sulba Sutra contains examples of simple Pythagorean triples, as well as a statement of the Pythagorean Theorem for the sides of a square
• Proof of Pythagoras theorem has been provided by both Baudhāyana and Āpastamba in their Sulba Sutras.
• Though, Baudhāyana was not the only Indian mathematician to have provided Pythagorean triplets and proof. Āpastamba also provided the proof for Pythagoras theorem.

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