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The article discusses the second main phase of the Indians' civilization in constructing sacrificial altars to accurate specifications, in which they needed to create one square twice the area of another. It states that the Indians recorded the formula of their altar-building in texts collection called the Sulbasutras. It mentions that Heronian algorithm is not difficult to recast in terms of operations on a rectangle of the wanted proportions but the fundamental concepts are anachronistic.

India has had a long tradition of more than 3000 years of pursuit of Mathematical ideas, starting from the Vedic age. The Sulvasutras (which included Pythagoras theorem before Pythagoras), the Jain works, the base 10 representation (along with the use of 0), names given to powers of 10 up to 10, the works of medieval mathematicians motivated by astronomical studies, and finally the contributions of the Kerala school that came strikingly close to modern mathematics, represent the various levels of intellectual attainment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the primitive counting, tally marks, and the progress of mathematics. It says that the primitive form of counting involved the correspondence between the objects to be counted and other convenient set of objects, such as the fingers of one's hand. It also states that the process of counting evolves into a more sophisticated process of tally marks on bones or stones. Furthermore, ancient civilizations had their own positional notation and grouping scheme by using symbols.

Provides information on the mathematics of the Indian Sulba-sútras. Information on numerical approximations defined by the Baudháyana and the Mánava Sulba-sútras; Origins of mathematics in India; Existence of other units of the Baudháyana Sulba-sútra.