The Rashtrakutas and their Times c22.37

c22.37

Besides the bullock cart, the oxen and pack horses of an inferior breed must have been used for transport, especially in the hilly tract, or when it was desired to have a speedy transport. In the Muslim period several subcastes used to follow the caravan's profession, transporting merchandise from one place to another. Individuals used to own as many as 100 bullocks; they used to move along with their wives, children, and priests, and had no houses of their own.³³ A similar mode of transport was probably in vogue in the Deccan of our period where roads were too hilly to admit of cart transport.