Yantrajaladhara, Yantrajaladhāra, Yantra-jaladhara: 1 definition
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Kavya (poetry)
Source: academia.edu: Bhoja’s Mechanical GardenYantrajaladhāra (यन्त्रजलधार) refers to “mechanical clouds”, as mentioned the Yaśastilakacampū (by Somadevasūri) while describing the Yantradhārāgṛha (“mechanical fountain house”).—One of the chief characters of the story, in describing his palace in an earlier birth as a king, tells of a wondrous “mechanical fountain house” (yantradhārāgṛha), which the court resorted to in the harsh heat of the summer, that was populated by a host of rare, artificial, and mechanical devices—[...] mechanical clouds (yantrajaladhāra) that watered surrounding plants; [...] Moving automata like these begin to appear with sporadic but persistent frequency in Sanskrit story literature from the end of the first millennium.
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: Yantra, Jaladhara.
Full-text: Yantradharagriha.
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