[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [Yantras or Mechanical Contrivances in Ancient India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.raghavan-1952) › c2.109 # Yantras or Mechanical Contrivances in Ancient India c2.109 Yantras or Mechanical Contrivances in Ancient India c2.109 - **Language:** English ### [c2.109](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.raghavan-1952.c2.109) We may begin with Somadeva Sūri, an encyclopædic Jain writer, and his long religious poem, the \*Yaśastilaka Campū\*,²³ written in South India in 949 A.D. In the first part of the work, Somadeva describes the hero resorting to the cool \*yantra-dhārā-gṛha\* to spend the hot hours of the summer days. This park, fitted with mechanical fountains, is appropriately called by the commentator \*Kṛtrima-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 water sports in the midst of which is a sandbank raised like a pavilion, provided with a water-bed, \*Salila-tūlikā\*; nearby are numerous vessels containing fragrant - [Previous: c2.108](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.raghavan-1952.c2.108) - [Next: c2.110](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.raghavan-1952.c2.110) - [Up: c2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.raghavan-1952.c2) ## Linked texts (1) - [Yaśastilaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.jaina.post.kavya.yasastilaka) — Somadevasūri, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.raghavan-1952.c2.109](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.raghavan-1952.c2.109) · Pramāṇa