Yantras or Mechanical Contrivances in Ancient India c2.164

c2.164

from public view; the *Vāhya*, or the machine to be carried by another; and the third, which is really obscure, but may be interpreted as the distant or proximate, meaning thereby the place from which the machine acts (10-11). Some move many persons and things while others require many persons to move them (49). That machine is best whose principle of action is concealed,³⁴ which achieves manifold purposes and which excites wonder (12).