The Shulba Sutras are sutra texts
belonging to the Strauta ritual and containing
geometry related to fire altar construction. They
are part of the larger corpus of texts called the
Shrauta Sutras, considered to be appendices to
the Vedas. They are the only sources of
knowledge of Indian mathematics from the
Veperiod. The four major Shulba Sutras, which
are math ematically the most significant, are
those composed by Baudhayana, Manava,
Apastamba and Katyayana.