Yantras or Mechanical Contrivances in Ancient India c2.153

c2.153

That brought the younger brother, the narrator, to the city of Hemapura. When he reached it, it was an abandoned place; he thought of peopling it with the help of his mechanical skill and created a yantra-population. Next day, he learnt from Naravāhanadatta the search that the latter was on, and helped him with an aircraft which took him to the city of Karpūrasambhava. There the Prince found the heroine of his dream, Karpūrikā, and married her. When he desired to return home with his new bride, his father-in-law revealed that he too had a visitor-architect in his city who could provide him with an aircraft. It happened that the visitor-architect was no other than Prāṇadhara, the elder brother of Kāñchī. The vehicle that Prāṇadhara gave him was a veritable flying fortress, as it could lightly bear a thousand passengers (228), and in that they returned home, touching Rājyadhara's city *en route*.