"The cord stretched in the diagonal of an oblong produces both [areas] which the cords forming the longer and shorter sides of an oblong produce separately."
— Baudhayana sutras

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(Baudhayana sutra 1.48; Apastambd sutra 1.4; Katyayana sutra 2.11). References from Seidenberg 1983, 98. ** in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press. chapter 12