Automation & Robotics in Sanskrit

Book excerpt: In vast sanskrit works on sciences like astronomy and engineering we come across the word Swayam-Vaha Vidya .It means science of automation . Not only in technical sanskrit works but in poems & poetic prose literature also we find description of automatic machines & robots . In this book of compilation such instances of automata in Sanskrit works from 5th century AD are compiled together with english short commentary on actual quotations from likes of Aryabhata, Poet Dandin, King Bhoja of Samarangana Sutradhara fame and famous mathematician BrahmaguptaThis book is itself proof and answer to all those who doubt about Vedic Technology like Vimanavidya or Space travel .For all those who researching in Vedic Technology & Sciences, this book will act as power boaster to their confidence & conviction . Also it will be helpful to researchers of history of sciences in Asia or particular in Sanskrit .