[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) › c2.128 # Yantras or Mechanical Contrivances in Ancient India c2.128 Yantras or Mechanical Contrivances in Ancient India c2.128 - **Language:** English ### [c2.128](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.raghavan-1952.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, - [Previous: c2.127](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.raghavan-1952.c2.127) - [Next: c2.129](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.raghavan-1952.c2.129) - [Up: c2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.raghavan-1952.c2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.raghavan-1952.c2.128](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.raghavan-1952.c2.128) · Pramāṇa