[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) › c2.22 # Yantras or Mechanical Contrivances in Ancient India c2.22 Yantras or Mechanical Contrivances in Ancient India c2.22 - **Language:** English ### [c2.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.raghavan-1952.c2.22) To a student of ancient Indian civilization in detail this is a question arousing very keen enthusiasm and, from the point of view of the general cultured public conversant with Sanskrit literature, what I am going to present contains much unfamiliar material about which they are likely to be curious. The whole of this material has not, so far as I know, been set forth previously at length or in a single place; the literary sources concerned are not free from textual problems and difficulties of interpretation, a few of them being still in manuscript; and, on the whole, I feel gratified, and grateful to this Institute that I have this opportunity to put together data that I have been noting down for some time. - [Previous: c2.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.raghavan-1952.c2.21) - [Next: c2.23](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.raghavan-1952.c2.23) - [Up: c2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.raghavan-1952.c2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.raghavan-1952.c2.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.raghavan-1952.c2.22) · Pramāṇa