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[…] should it […] boil down to the fact that individual parts of the Sulbasutras are relatively modern interpolations?

— Moritz Cantor

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Cantor, Moritz. Über die älteste indische Mathematik, Archiv der Mathematik und Physik, Pg 70, 1905.in The Sulbasutras and the 'Pythagoras Theorem'

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Therefore, we do not doubt for a moment that Pythagoras’ stay in Egypt, that the lessons he received from the priests there, were among the things that were common truth.

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