History of Technology in India, Vol. I: From Antiquity to c. 1200 A.D. v1.c32.s2.t9.7

v1.c32.s2.t9.7

In the southern part of the sub-continent there were also water- lifting devices prevalent from the very early centuries of the Christian era. But the *Saṅgam* literary works, from which we derive materials for our study on the subject, do not clearly mention the provenance of the use of such devices. The application of water-lifters and other simple devices are, however, unmistakably mentioned in the literary works such as the *Akānānūru*, the *Maduraikāñci*, the *Silappadikāram* and the *Manimekalai*, the twin epics in Tamil, the *Periyapurāṇam* and so on.