Descriptions of automated devices and flying machines.
Bhoja codifies the three major styles of Indian temple architecture prevalent at the time: Nagara (North Indian), Dravida (South Indian), and Vesara (Hybrid). He provides specific ratios and proportions for pillars, bases, and cornices, ensuring that the final structure would be aesthetically pleasing and structurally sound. samarangana sutradhara
In the vast ocean of ancient Indian literature, most people are familiar with the Arthashastra (statecraft), the Kamasutra (love), and the Charaka Samhita (medicine). However, nestled in the twilight of the 11th century CE is a text so ambitious, so encyclopedic, and so mysteriously advanced that it reads like a science fiction blueprint crossed with a carpenter’s manual. This is the . Descriptions of automated devices and flying machines