Yantras or Mystic Diagrams: A Wide Area for Study in Ancient and Medieval Indian Mathematics

Ramasubramanian, K.

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As an appliance, yantra may be an astronomical or surgical instrument, or a machine or mechanical device.

Indian Journal of History of Science, 42.2 (2007), pp. 163–204.

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Ramasubramanian, K. (2019). Yantras or Mystic Diagrams: A Wide Area for Study in Ancient and Medieval Indian Mathematics. In: Ramasubramanian, K. (eds) Gaṇitānanda. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1229-8_26

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