The Antiquities of Orissa v1.c10.508

v1.c10.508

Of the form of the covered waggon we have only one example in the Amarāvatī sculptures, and it corresponds pretty closely [ 134 ] with the description given in the *Mṛcchakaṭika*, a two-wheeled vehicle drawn by a pair of bullocks, and opening behind to receive the riders, the driver being seated in front in the same way as in the present day. (Woodcut No. 55, copied from Fergusson’s *Tree and Serpent Worship*, plate LXV) Indeed, the persistency of custom in this respect appears so great, and the progress of art so cramped, that no appreciable change has been effected within the course of the last sixteen hundred years, and the North Indian waggon of to-day seems to differ in no respect from what was in use in the fourth century of the Christian era.