Yantras or Mechanical Contrivances in Ancient India c2.136

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c2.136

The King would not believe his words and pressed him, whereupon Pukkasaka pressed Viśvila. Viśvila pretended to reveal the secret, but that night he woke up his wife and gave her an ultimatum; by pressing him for knowledge of the flying-machine, her father was virtually driving him to his own home, that she had to choose between father and husband, and that, so far as he was concerned, he would give her up rather than the secret. She took little time to decide and in a moment they were off on the machine-cock:

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