Yantras or Mechanical Contrivances in Ancient India c2.93

c2.93

The Yavanas referred to being Greeks is rendered probable by two circumstances; one the antiquity of the yantras, particularly of war, in India, going through Kauṭilya to the epic literature itself, and the other, the evidence available on the Greeks and automata; there are numerous correspondences that can be fully appreciated only after we deal with the material found in Somadeva and Bhoja, for which reason I have reserved them to the end.