Yantras or Mechanical Contrivances in Ancient India c2.98

c2.98

forms the full text of the truncated *Daśakumāracarita*, and the introductory portions referred to are still in manuscript.²² In one of the introductory verses praising earlier poets, Daṇḍin introduces yantras; praising the author of the *Mahābhārata*, he says that, but for the knowledge that Vyāsa infused in us, we would merely be human machines:—