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but nowhere in the Epic do we get any clear idea of what
these mechanisms looked like or how they functioned.
That a large number of them were deployed at the same time
is obvious from the plural that is generally used (III.
24.3,268.30; VI.50.49, 92.69), and moreover at Indraprastha
an entire network of them was put up on the walls
(yantrajala) (I. 199.32).
There is, however, every reason to believe that at
least some of these machines were devices like the cakra
and the kacagrahani, while the others were some kinds of
slings and catapults. This is not a mere assumption, for
the Mbh itself describes the cakra gaurding the '
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as a superb mechanism of the gods (1.29.2). The large-
scale use of sling balls and stones of varying sizes too,
is an indication of the use of slings and catapults of all
kinds, from simple V-shaped wood and leather ones, carried
in hands to complicated mechanisms, hurling huge stone
slabs and boulders.
The Dronaparva describes how some of the Kaurava
soldiers, mounted on elephants got caught in yantras and
found themselves dangling helplessly from the animal's
back. After that it was an easy work for Arjuna, who
pinned down two and three men at a time, with a single
arrow (VII.65.21). This description gives only a remote
idea of how some of these machines must have worked. It
is quite possible that they comprised of such simple