Yantras or Mechanical Contrivances in Ancient India c2.120

c2.120

²⁷ It may be mentioned here that the association of skilled works with Yavanas had become so well known that we find it mentioned in Tamil literature also. In the fragmentary Tamil version of the *Brihatkatha*, by Konguvel, Yavana carpenters are included among the workmen of many types responsible for a chariot of high workmanship used by Udayana (I. 58.40); and in the Buddhistic epic *Manimekhalai*, in an almost similar list of workmen mentioned as responsible for a garden house of great architectural charm, Yavana carpenters are again found (XIX. 108).