War in Ancient India c7.s1.t1.3

c7.s1.t1.3

He was an expert who drove his horses with the whip and reins in his left hand. But when this hand was wounded, he still drove on, holding the goad and reins in his right. ‘His true art’, says Hopkins, ‘consisted in wheeling and turning, in bringing the car rapidly about, so as to attack the antagonist with such speed from all quarters that the chariot seemed to advance from all sides at once. The names of the circles are apparently technical... The effect of circling was produced by goading the steeds and hauling on the reins.’²⁵