Yantras or Mechanical Contrivances in Ancient India c2.142

c2.142

This fulfilment of the Queen’s *dohada* during her pregnancy, for an aerial flight, has an echo in Jain Kāvya literature also; in Vādībhasimha’s *Gadyacintāmaṇi* ³⁰ and *Kṣatracūḍāmaṇi* ³¹, carpenters make a peacock-like aerial car (*Mayūra-yantra*) for the pleasure flight of Queen Vijayā.