Vatayantravimanaka, Vatayantra-vimanaka, Vātayantravimānaka: 3 definitions
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Vatayantravimanaka means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
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Kavya (poetry)
Source: academia.edu: Bhoja’s Mechanical GardenVātayantravimānaka (वातयन्त्रविमानक) or simply Vātayantra refers to a “flying machine vehicle” (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 (vātayantravimānaka) 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.
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’.
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryVātayantravimānaka (वातयन्त्रविमानक):—[=vāta-yantra-vimānaka] [from vāta-yantra > vāta > vā] n. a mechanical car or other vehicle driven by the w°, [Kathāsaritsāgara]
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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.
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Partial matches: Vatayantra, Vimanaka.
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