Yantras or Mechanical Contrivances in Ancient India c2.128

c2.128

they in the house had been burning loads of fuel and yet the rice would not even moisten. Pukkasaka now understood that his son-in-law had arrived and desired to see the youth. Viśvila issued out of the workshop and when the puzzled Pukkasaka asked him what that so-called rice was, Viśvila revealed that they were fake, fine rice-like chisellings from the white wood of the Karaghāṭa tree. The marriage of Viśvila and Ratnāvalī was then celebrated. After a time, Viśvila learnt from his brothers-in-law their anxiety about feeding in their house one more family member in the form of the son-in-law; Viśvila at once repaired to the forest, cut down certain kinds of wood and manufactured out of them yāvana-machines,