Yukti Kalpataru is a famous treatise in Sanskrit principally on ship building in ancient Hindu world. It was written and compiled by king Bhoja of Dhara (C 1000 – 1055 CE) of the Paramara dynasty. And therefore it is also known as Yukti Kalpataru Of Bhoja. There are references to shipping and shipbuilding in other languages of the world but Yukti Kalpataru is the oldest book which deals with shipbuilding in such exhaustive detail. Apart from Shipping, Yuktikalpataru also touches upon many other topics like selection of jewels, swords, horses, elephants, ornaments, flags and so on. The book begins with the selection of wood for building boats and ships. The ships are built using light and hard and this type of wood cannot be joined with other types of woods like soft and heavy or hard and heavy or light and soft. The light and hard wood brings wealth and happiness as per the author. Ships made of other types of wood are not good and do not last long. They rot in water early and ar