Yantras or Mechanical Contrivances in Ancient India c2.141

c2.141

The new *Śilpin* replied that the yantra that he was going to make was of a superior type quite different from the productions of the stupid architects to whom they referred, and that the seating capacity of his vehicle was not limited. He made accordingly an aerial car of the shape of Garuḍa. Vāsavadattā and Udayana mounted it with their retinue, roamed about, called on Padmāvatī’s brother in Magadha on the east and on Vāsavadattā’s own parents at Ujjain on the west and returned to Kauśāmbī.