[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) › c2.112 # Yantras or Mechanical Contrivances in Ancient India c2.112 Yantras or Mechanical Contrivances in Ancient India c2.112 - **Language:** English ### [c2.112](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.raghavan-1952.c2.112) Other artificial works here are figures of celestial trees, \*Kalpavṛkṣas\*,²⁴ with celestial damsels seated on them along with their lovers and figures of cloud-damsels (\*payodhara-purandhrī\* or \*Meghaputtalikā\*) giving shower-baths from their bosoms, figures of monkeys spouting water, statuettes of water-damsels, (\*jaladevatās\*); there are wind-damsels (\*pavana-kanyakās\*), wafting breezes with fly-whisks; and figures of ladies, scattering cool sandal-water all around. Somadeva Sūri says of such a figure that if her hands were touched, she would emit sprays through her nails; if her face, through the eyes and so on, a description which, as we shall see presently from its corroboration in every detail in Bhoja's treatise,²⁵ pertained clearly to fact and not to mere imaginative fiction. - [Previous: c2.111](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.raghavan-1952.c2.111) - [Next: c2.113](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.raghavan-1952.c2.113) - [Up: c2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.raghavan-1952.c2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.raghavan-1952.c2.112](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.raghavan-1952.c2.112) · Pramāṇa