Yanta
Yanta，（nt．） [Vedic yantra，a kind of n．ag．formation fr．yam to hold by means of a string or bridle，etc．Idg．*em & *ịem，as in Lat．emo to take & red-imio．] a means for holding，contrivance，artifice，instrument，machine，mechanism； fig．instrumentality （as perhaps in，kamma° at Th．passages）．-- Referring to the machinery （outfit） of a ship （as oars，helm，etc．） J．IV，163 （sabbayant’ûpapanna=piy’--ârittā etc．C．）； Miln．379．To mechanism in general （mechanical force） J．V，333 （°vegena=with the swiftness of machinery）．To a sugar-mill Miln．166； usually as ucchu-yanta J．I，25，339 （°yante gaṇṭhikā），cp．ucchūnaṁ yanta DhA．IV，199．--tela-yanta （-cakka） （the wheel of） an oil mill J．I，25．--dāru-yanta a wooden machine （i．e．a mechanical man with hands & feet moved by pulling of strings） DA．I，197； Vism．595 （quoted as simile）．--kamma-yanta the machinery of Kamma Th．1，419 （i．e．its instrumentality，not，as trsln “car”； cp．Brethren 217：“it breaks in pieces K’s living car，” evidently influenced by C．expln “attabhāva-yanta”），574 （similarly：see discussed under yantita）．Note．yantāni at Nd2 529 （on Sn．48 saṅghaṭṭa-yantām） is expld as “dhuvarāni．” The spelling & meaning of the latter is not clear．It must refer to bracelets．‹-› Cp．SnA 96 valayāni．
--ākaḍḍhana pulling the machine Vism．258=VbhA．241．--cakkha-yaṭṭhi the stick of the wheel of a （sugar-） mill VbhA．60．--nāḷi a mechanical tube DhA．III，215．--pāsāṇa an aerolite （?） J．III，258 （read °pāsāṇo）．--phalakāni the boards of a machine Vism．258．--yutta combined by machinery J．VI，432．--sutta the string of a machine （or mill）．Vism．258 （as °ka）=VbhA．241．--hatthi a mechanical （automatic） elephant DhA．I，192 （of King Caṇḍa-pajjota； cp．the horse of Troy）．（Page 550）