Yantras or Mechanical Contrivances in Ancient India c2.63

c2.63

*Musala* and *Yaṣṭi* are well-known; Hastivāraka is interpreted as a two- or three-pronged iron rod, *Hastiparigha*, for striking at elephants, but may really mean, as seen from a reference in Daṇḍin's *Avantisundarī*, a machine which hurls heavy iron rods to smite and demoralize the elephants.