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Three Thousand Three Hundred and Thirty-Nine
A hymn to Agni pauses to give the number of gods who attended him. Not 'many', not 'countless': 3,339. Follow the Rigveda's numbers and you find a fully decimal counting system, a taste for oddly exact figures, and no way at all of writing any of it down.
The Mathematics of Vedic Altars: How the Śulba Sūtras Anticipated Geometry
To build a fire altar precisely shaped like a falcon out of exactly 1,000 bricks, the Vedic ritual tradition developed the first formal geometry on the Indian subcontinent — and stated the Pythagorean theorem three centuries before Pythagoras. A look at the Śulba Sūtras.