The Social and Military Position of the Ruling Caste in Ancient India, as Represented by the Sanskrit Epic c2.s5.240

c2.s5.240

Çvet. Up. i. 4 has three tires, fifty spokes, twenty *pratyara* or counter-spokes, and sixteen end-pieces to the felly (or felly and tire together), as if these were made of small pieces patched together. I do not understand the *ṣoḍacānta* or the ‘forty-eight’ pieces following. Very likely this may be nothing but an imagined wheel, to illustrate the philosophical stuff in which it is buried.