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Samarangana Sutradhara by Bhojadeva is an eighty three chapter treatise which deals with town planning, house architecture, temple architecture, various sculptural subjects, canons of paintings, devotes a big chapter called Yantravidhanam (यन्त्रविधानम्) on art of mechanical contrivances, the yantras. Chapter thirty one of this book specializes in mechanical contrivances and yantras, including those with construction of vimanas or aerial cars.<ref>Shruti. K. R., and Dr. Rajani Jairam. ''Mechanical Contrivances and Daru Vimanas described in Samarangana Sutradhara of Bhojadeva,'' IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS) Volume 20, Issue 12, Ver. V (Dec. 2015) PP 16-20

Samarangana Sutradhara by Bhojadeva is an eighty three chapter treatise which deals with town planning, house architecture, temple architecture, various sculptural subjects, canons of paintings, devotes a big chapter called Yantravidhanam (यन्त्रविधानम्) on art of mechanical contrivances, the yantras. Chapter thirty one of this book specializes in mechanical contrivances and yantras, including those with construction of vimanas or aerial cars.<ref>Shruti. K. R., and Dr. Rajani Jairam. ''Mechanical Contrivances and Daru Vimanas described in Samarangana Sutradhara of Bhojadeva,'' IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS) Volume 20, Issue 12, Ver. V (Dec. 2015) PP 16-20

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Till now we have been dealing with yantras having mainly the background of war. The yantras we shall now deal with are accessories of pleasure and entertainment, and more properly come under household fittings and' architectural engineering. Some of them=are for the reduction of human labour, some for sport and merriment,—toys and gadgets of-miscellaneous kinds for entertainment. "

Till now we have been dealing with yantras having mainly the background of war. The yantras we shall now deal with are accessories of pleasure and entertainment, and more properly come under household fittings and' architectural engineering. Some of them=are for the reduction of human labour, some for sport and merriment,—toys and gadgets of-miscellaneous kinds for entertainment. "

We may begin'with Somadeva Suri, an encyclopaedic Jain writer," and.Tiis long.religious poem, the ''Yaiastilaka Campu,23'' written in South India in 949 A.D. In the first part of thework, Somadeva describes the hero resorting to the cool ''yantra-dhdrd-griha'' to spend the hot hours of the summer days. This park, fitted with mechanical" fountains, is appropriately called by the commentator ''Krilrima-megha-mandira,'' the artificial cloud-pavilion. It is erected in the dense garden in an area provided with many canals. There is the stream for watef sports in the midst of which" is a sandbank raised like a pavilion, provided with a water-bed, ''Sdtila'-tulika;'' nearby'are numerous vessels containing-fragrant water jtat'one end'here is an ''yantra-jala-dhdrd,'' a contrivance' p'roducingVari'arlf-s ficial-waterfall; the water is taken through" and thrown out'of the "mouth's of! figures of elephants, tigers, lions,'snakes,'etc: ' ' " > ''~"'1''  

We may begin'with Somadeva Suri, an encyclopaedic Jain writer," and.Tiis long.religious poem, the ''Yaiastilaka Campu,23'' written in South India in 949 A.D. In the first part of thework, Somadeva describes the hero resorting to the cool ''yantra-dhdrd-griha'' to spend the hot hours of the summer days. This park, fitted with mechanical" fountains, is appropriately called by the commentator ''Krilrima-megha-mandira,'' the artificial cloud-pavilion. It is erected in the dense garden in an area provided with many canals. There is the stream for watef sports in the midst of which" is a sandbank raised like a pavilion, provided with a water-bed, ''Sdtila'-tulika;'' nearby'are numerous vessels containing-fragrant water jtat'one end'here is an ''yantra-jala-dhdrd,'' a contrivance' p'roducingVari'arlf-s ficial-waterfall; the water is taken through" and thrown out'of the "mouth's of! figures of elephants, tigers, lions,'snakes,'etc: ' ' " > ''~"'1''

 

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