[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [Yantras or Mechanical Contrivances in Ancient India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.raghavan-1952) › c2.206 # Yantras or Mechanical Contrivances in Ancient India c2.206 Yantras or Mechanical Contrivances in Ancient India c2.206 - **Language:** English ### [c2.206](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.raghavan-1952.c2.206) The fifth main division of the \*yantrādhikāra\* was mentioned at the beginning as \*Rathadolā\*; Bhoja now takes it up. \*Rathadolā\* is a swing or a merry-go-round in which people ride in seats, and enjoy the pleasure of wheeling round. That merry-go-rounds were a common sight is seen also in descriptions like the one we find in the poem \*Citrabandha Rāmāyaṇa\* of Veṅkaṭeśakavi (Tanjore Ms. No. 3772, Verse 6) where the courtezans wheeling round in the \*Dāru-yantra\* in the palace courtyard are described by the poet as stars going round Mount Meru. Bhoja devotes as much attention to it as to the \*yantra-dhārā-gṛiha\*; here too types are known with distinct names, but Bhoja's descriptions here, though detailed, are not as clear as in the case of the fountains. The varieties are called \*Vasanta\*, \*Madanotsava\*, \*Vasantatilaka\*, \*Vibhramaka\* and \*Tripura\*, (174) and each subsequent type is more elaborate and complicated in its mechanism than the previous one. - [Previous: c2.205](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.raghavan-1952.c2.205) - [Next: c2.207](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.raghavan-1952.c2.207) - [Up: c2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.raghavan-1952.c2) ## Cites (1) - [Citrabandharāmāyaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.slesa.citra.citrabandha-works.citrabandharamayana.6) — Veṅkateśvara Dīkṣita 1610, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.raghavan-1952.c2.206](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.raghavan-1952.c2.206) · Pramāṇa