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The arithmetical parts of theŚulbasūtra apart, our only sources of information about Vedic numeracy are texts that are primarily poetic and/or religiousritualistic.
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Divakaran, P.P. (2018). Numbers in the Vedic Literature. In: The Mathematics of India. Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1774-3_5
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