The Sanskrit term Ākāśayantra can be transliterated into English as Akasayantra or Akashayantra, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Vastushastra (architecture)

Source: academia.edu: Bhoja’s Mechanical Garden (vastu)

Ākāśayantra (आकाशयन्त्र) refers to a “flying machine”, according to the Samarāṅganasūtradhāra.—The most intriguing type of yantra noted by Bhoja is the flying machine, or ākāśayantra. While such flying contraptions are mentioned in earlier literary works as fabulous vehicles, the Samarāṅganasūtradhāra would appear to be the first attempt to understand them as constructed machines harnessing power. The ākāśayantra, according to Bhoja, was made from light wood, shaped like a giant bird, and flew by the energy generated from vats of boiling mercury. The association of the Bhoja’s preeminent machine with mercury, deemed the most precious and powerful of substances, is perhaps not surprising—mercury would soon become a key ingredient of Bhāskara’s twelfth-century “wheel of perpetual motion”.

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Vastushastra (वास्तुशास्त्र, vāstuśāstra) refers to the ancient Indian science (shastra) of architecture (vastu), dealing with topics such architecture, sculpture, town-building, fort building and various other constructions. Vastu also deals with the philosophy of the architectural relation with the cosmic universe.

Kavya (poetry)

Source: academia.edu: Bhoja’s Mechanical Garden

Ākāśayantra (आकाशयन्त्र) refers to “sky machines”: a technology that was known to the Yavanas, according to the 9th century Budhasvāmin’s Bṛhatkathāślokasaṃgraha.—In the fifth canto, we are told of the pregnancy cravings of the protagonist Naravāhanadatta’s mother, Vāsvadattā, wife of Udayana, to see the whole earth from a flying machine (ambarasthavimāna). When the court learns of her craving, the ministers assemble the woodworkers of the court who confess that they had no such capabilities and that sky machines (ākāśayantra) were only known to the Yavanas.

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Kavya (काव्य, kavya) refers to Sanskrit poetry, a popular ancient Indian tradition of literature. There have been many Sanskrit poets over the ages, hailing from ancient India and beyond. This topic includes mahakavya, or ‘epic poetry’ and natya, or ‘dramatic poetry’.

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Partial matches: Akasha, Yantra.

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