Automata and Mechanical Devices
Elaborately engineered fountains shaped like humans and animals that operated using hydraulic pressure. Vimanas : The Ancient Flying Machines samarangana sutradhara
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Perhaps the most astonishing and widely discussed section of the Samarangana Sutradhara is its , titled Yantravidhanam (The Science of Mechanical Contrivances). This remarkable chapter appears to describe advanced mechanical devices, some of which seem extraordinarily prescient for the 11th century: samarangana sutradhara