War in Ancient India c6.s2.21

c6.s2.21

The Cakra,⁵⁸ the next weapon in the category, is a circular disc with a small opening in the middle. It was of three kinds of eight, six and four spokes.⁵⁹ It was used in five or six ways. It resembled the quoit of the Sikhs to-day. The various uses of a disc were felling, whirling, rending, breaking, severing, and cutting. It is one of the instruments peculiar to Viṣṇu. Kauṭalya speaks of it as a movable machine.