[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) › c2.29 # Yantras or Mechanical Contrivances in Ancient India c2.29 Yantras or Mechanical Contrivances in Ancient India c2.29 - **Language:** English ### [c2.29](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.raghavan-1952.c2.29) One of the best creations of the most ancient architects of this country is the chariot, \*Ratha\*. The \*Ratha-kāra\* of Vedic times was ever a person of importance, according to the \*Vājasaneyi-Saṁhitā\*, the \*Śatapatha-Brāhmaṇa\* and the \*Atharva-veda\*. To the earliest Vedic poet the Ratha, finely hewn and fitted, was the very type of a well-wrought thing; his appreciation of the skill involved in its making made him not only refer to its maker as a person of high mental equipment, \*Dhīra\* and \*Manīṣin\*, but several times compare himself and his own creation in words, the hymn, to the gifted carpenter shaping his chariot. (\*Ṛgveda\*, I. 130.⁶; V. 2. 11; 29. 15; 73. 10; X. 39. 14). The poet referred to himself as a \*Kāru\*, architect; later, the Great Epic refers to the architect Maya as a \*Mahākavi\*, a great poet. - [Previous: c2.28](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.raghavan-1952.c2.28) - [Next: c2.30](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.raghavan-1952.c2.30) - [Up: c2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.raghavan-1952.c2) ## Linked texts (1) - [Ṛgvedasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg.1.130.6) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.raghavan-1952.c2.29](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.raghavan-1952.c2.29) · Pramāṇa