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Kavya (poetry)

Source: academia.edu: Bhoja’s Mechanical Garden

Vātayantra (वातयन्त्र) or Vātayantravimānaka refers to a “flying machine” (a pneumatically powered yantra), as mentioned in the Kathāsaritsāgara (“ocean of streams of story”).—Rājyadhara, and his brother, Prānadhara, had once lived in the city of Kanchi ruled by the king Bāhubala. They were carpenters by trade that were skilled in the art of making magical automata from wood and other substances in the manner that Maya, architect of the Daityas, had first done. [...] Prānadhara then mounted a pneumatically powered mechanical flying vehicle (vātayantra-vimānaka) and disappeared into the air toward some far away land. Rājyadhara followed a day later, taking his own pneumatically powered yantra to a forest, where he alighted and then came upon an empty city, with a palace full of royal garments and other paraphernalia.

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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’.

Ayurveda (science of life)

Source: Shodhganga: The Caraka Saṃhitā and the Suśruta Saṃhitā

Vātayantra (वातयन्त्र) refers to an “instrument for blowing air in the room” according to the Carakasaṃhitā Cikitsāsthāna 24.158.—The patient of paittika type alcoholism is prescribed the following measures: use of cooling beds and seats (according to Suśruta it is a bed of blooming lotuses or of padmini petals covered with water droplets); walks in cool gardens; use of silk garments, lotus, water-lily, gems and pearls; and the application of sandal paste. Patients are advised to touch vessels of gold, silver and bronze filled with cold water and of leather bags containing ice, and embrace women smeared with sandal paste. The use of jalayantra (instrument for sprinkling water), vātayantra (instrument for blowing air in the room), and dhāragṛha (a room where water is sprinkled from the roof) are deemed beneficial.

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Āyurveda (आयुर्वेद, ayurveda) is a branch of Indian science dealing with medicine, herbalism, taxology, anatomy, surgery, alchemy and related topics. Traditional practice of Āyurveda in ancient India dates back to at least the first millenium BC. Literature is commonly written in Sanskrit using various poetic metres.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Vātayantra (वातयन्त्र):—[=vāta-yantra] [from vāta > vā] n. ‘wind-machine’, an apparatus for ventilating, [ib.]

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Yantra, Vata.

Starts with: Vatayantravimanaka.

Full-text: Vatayantravimanaka, Vimanaka, Jalayantra, Dharagriha.

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