The Manava Sulvasutra records a circumference ratio of 3.2 and, under a new reading, a trisector-based circle-squaring rule accurate to about 0.5 percent.
Gupta, New Indian values of π from the M¯ anava´Sulvas¯ utra, Centaurus 31 (1988), 114 - 125
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The Manava Sulvasutra records a circumference ratio of 3.2 and, under a new reading, a trisector-based circle-squaring rule accurate to about 0.5 percent.