Elements of Buddhist Iconography c4.73

c4.73

The continuity of the ideology is often very striking; compare for example *Ṛg Veda*, I, 164, 13, "its axle is never heated (*na tapyate*), its heavy-laden nave (*nābhi*) is never worn away," with the edifying application of the same notion in *Saṃyutta Nikāya*, I, 33 (I, 5, 7), where the chariot which with its twin Word-wheels (*dhamma-cakkehi saṃyutto*) conducts the rider to *nibbāṇa* is by name "Frictionless" (Akujana).